The scene starts of with a bird’s eye view of Las Vegas. This sets the scene and helps the audience understand where the show is set. It has non diegetic sound and a bridge from the following scene which takes a jump cut. Hodges the forensic scientist is talking to Catherine willows about her evidence. There is a slow zoom into Hodges Catherine and Warrick. This scene predominantly conveys the genre to the audience. Over the shoulder shots and Catherine and Hodges speak. She is tested on her geology and this shows her as an intellectual women. This subverts the dominant ideology and shows women can be just as superior as men. She is also a blonde woman which makes it oppose many other ideology and values. However the following lines still make her seem like a sex object and goes back to her teenage rebellious years. She talks about dating the T.A in high school, in a normal tone but as soon as Warrick starts talking her tone of voice and facial expression both change. The angle becomes slightly higher than before making her seem inferior yet this could be for the male gaze for men to believe she can be controlled and they are dominant. She squints her eyes slightly and her tone of voice becomes much huskier, this shows she is trying to flirt with Warrick and is trying to appeal to him. They are both caught in a moment until Hodges interrupts. This shows people can see the situation between them, and therefore Catherine, even though very intellectual and is at work, is still seen through the male gaze by Warrick and possibly by the audience. Although CSI subverts representing women in the light of stupid and just there for men’s desires, it still fulfills that ideology by showing this situation between Warrick and Catherine.

The props are quite basic and reflect the police and crime genre. Catherine’s facial expression changes yet again with a slight pout but trying to conceal her laughter and embarrassment, she is yet still looking at Warrick still keeping that connection even though Hodges has moved back to the evidence. Throughout the rest of the scene we can still see the embarrassment on warrick’s face. This whole scene has a slight romantic feel with Warrick and Catherine but primarily is set out for voyeurism by the male audience. The male gaze is fulfilled with Catherine’s facial expression tone of voice and what she is talking about.

This scene itself has a linear narrative which just follows the storyline but has an enigmatic code, as to what’s going on between Warrick and Catherine. The issue this brings up is “can women be realistically represented without fulfilling the male gaze in media texts?”
Programmes such as CSI should follow the crime storyline but they always have dual narratives with relationships etc and through this many females are represented as they would be in many other programmes.