Scene 2: Genre
The genre of the film Fish Tank, is a social realism film, which focuses on societies main issues and problems the working class world face in every day life. The main topics focused on throughout are underage drinking, under age sex, violence, and poverty. A social realism film shows 'real life' situations, compared to a mainstream genre which is not always realistic in real life. These connotations are shown through camera movements and angles, music, the pace of the film, cuts between scenes etc. There are a lot of hand held camera shots when following Mia around and for what she gets up to. Mia approaches a group of young girls and gets into a fight, the use of the hand held camera makes it seem more realistic as if someone who is there is filming the fight on their phone. This relates to the genre as things like this happen daily in working class areas, as someone always video records a fight. The film has a slow pace, which shows how days can drag out for someone with nothing to do. Mia has no job and doesn't seem to be at school during the film so she finds things to entertain herself throughout.
The genre of the film Fish Tank, is a social realism film, which focuses on societies main issues and problems the working class world face in every day life. The main topics focused on throughout are underage drinking, under age sex, violence, and poverty. A social realism film shows 'real life' situations, compared to a mainstream genre which is not always realistic in real life. These connotations are shown through camera movements and angles, music, the pace of the film, cuts between scenes etc. There are a lot of hand held camera shots when following Mia around and for what she gets up to. Mia approaches a group of young girls and gets into a fight, the use of the hand held camera makes it seem more realistic as if someone who is there is filming the fight on their phone. This relates to the genre as things like this happen daily in working class areas, as someone always video records a fight. The film has a slow pace, which shows how days can drag out for someone with nothing to do. Mia has no job and doesn't seem to be at school during the film so she finds things to entertain herself throughout.
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