Walking Dead:
Gender:
-Men are presented to be more brave and outgoing by their willingness to put themselves at risk in order to create some form of safety for the group (S02E01 [min 20-23])
-Women start off as scared and have many close to death experiences but through the process of the series' become more careless and 'rebellious' than some of the men e.g. Carol (S01E03 [min 41:30-42:30]) , (S05E01[min 17-19])
Education:
-Characters who may of had a higher level of education before the apocalypse now seem to be more vulnerable and less able to fight and attack meanwhile those who didn't have as high of an education are now better off as they can fend for themselves (S05E05 [mins 36:30-40:00])
Freedom:
-Freedom is never guaranteed as whenever the group find a safe haven of some sort it is only temporary. (S02E02 [mins 5:00-8:30]) , (S02E13 [mins 6:00-18:40])
Relationships:
-Relationships have to be close as trust is a very precious and rare thing to find however relationships are also easily broken mainly by death. (S05E02 [mins 10:30-13:30])
Ethics:
-Ethics are very different as the world is different. Trust is a hard thing to find and many things are required to build it up. Death is what usually tears this apart, either natural death or being killed by the living. Consequences are made up on the spot usually on some sort of bias. (S04E04 [mins 37:20-39:40])
Mis en scene:
-Often items will be found turned over or in a place of devastation, this shows the mise en scene is revealing a form of disaster has occurred. An example of this is the pilot episode. This is important as it is trying to set a scene for a brand new audience so it has to communicate effectively what level of destruction the audience can see from the beginning. (S01E01 [mins 0-3])
-Another form of mise en scene is when cars are seen driving on the road there are often leaves all over the road, this show the lack of care for the earth. It also represents the lack or organization and of leadership as man is always traveling and does not have time to make the earth look presentable, let alone the fact that it has no one to make the location look presentable to. It establishes the real anarchy in the earth. (S05E09 [mins 40:00-41:00])
Sound:
-A common form of diegetic sound used in the show is the groaning the Walkers (zombies) make. This shows the anarchy seen in the show or rather the warnings of anarchy as it represents life with out some form of organized leadership will lead to a mindless, killing race of beings. Hearing a human voice is even something that isn't usually seen outside of the main group of characters seen in the show. As the show goes on a human voices gets so rare that the appearance of other humans often creates some form of suspicion within the group as the expect the worst from these other humans.
For an example click here.
