Film Studies

Wasp is a 2003 26 minute short film written and directed by Andrea Arnold. It revolves around a struggling young woman with the ambition that she is going to get with Dave and her children will not get in her way. The issues the film deals with is, poverty, neglect, teen pregnancy and the universal conflict of desire vs duty. We see Zoe(the main character) struggling with this constantly as she can't find someone to babysit so she decides to take the kids to the pub and keep checking on them playing outside instead of taking them home. Then we see her buying drinks and she cant afford everything so she ends up disappointing the kids as they have to share one glass of coke and a packet of crisps between them so she can get Dave and his mates a drink instead. When the kids want to go home she tells them she wants to spend more time with Dave so unsupervised they find some ribs on the floor and eat them which leads to a wasp flying into the babys mouth where Kelly decides to put respo

About A Girl About A Girl is a nine minute short film about a 13 year old girl who has a huge ego breaking the forth wall and telling us all about her and her life in a comedic way. It was Directed by Brian Percival, written by Julie Rutterford and produced by Janey De Nordwall in 2001. Rutterford was inspired to write the script from her experiences with children. The films main themes and issues raised are domestic violence, teenage pregnancy, ambition, disenfranchised youth and social deprevation. The film is most known for its shocking twist ending revealing she was pregnant presented in a dark way leading to different interpretations by audiences.  It was filmed as a mockumentary  where a camera backward tracks the main character in our eye line and addressing us as an audience. This is done so we already feel she is confident and has a big ego which will make her funny and likable to a preferred audience members reading or overbearing and annoying to an oppositional reading