In Single Father, both genders are represented in different ways.
One of these ways is through costumes. Adults wear plain, sometimes smart clothes, which shows responsibility and a high status. The audience will think that the drama will revolve around them, and will have the most dialogue, unlike the children. Their costumes are messy and carefree, and the audience will think that they are secondary characters, and that they are more affected by the adults actions, rather than do the action themselves. All costumes are dull colours, because the programme is a drama, so the audience cannot be distracted from the storyline. With acting, children in this preogramme have more happy facial expressions than the adults, and this shows off their personality. The audience will think that the children provide the humour and lighten the situation. The adults however are strict but calm, with loud voiced and nearly blank facial expressions, and restricted body language.
The lighting is mostly high key, because it is realistic - most scenes are set in the day, so naturally high key lghting would be used, and so we can see the actors faces and reactions in the scenes. When Rita dies however, the lighting is low key, to reflect the mood of the characters, in mourning for Rita. Lighting is a subtle hint for the audience, so they can tell what mood the scene will be. The locations are general - a nursery, a family home, and a photographers studio - and all show gender equality. However, there is one scene set at a football ground, which may be stereotypical, because all of the characters in the scene are male. The audience would feel quite happy that gender is represented mostly equal in a location point of view.
The diegetic sound of conversation does in a way represent men as dominant, for example, in one scene, two women are talking and one says that her husband doesn't want children, so they won't have any soon. The audience may feel bad for the woman, because it seems that her husband is telling her what to do. Although in another scene, females are shown to be dominant through diegetic sound. We see an or hestea playing, where one of the main characters (female) isxshow playing. This portrays her as intellectual and dominant in the scene, and the audience will this this.
