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...

Throughout trainspotting we see a dull colour pallet, fast paced music fast paced camera shots. This is what makes trainspotting so well known and what made it such a success because although it deals with problems in society like a Social realism typically does it added really unrealistic things to the verisimilitude of the film whichade it more intresting which definitely made it more intresting and enjoyable. If for example you compare it to something like Fish Tank a social realism film based around a similar group in society to the cast of trainspotting coming out a little over ten years later Trainspotting does the same thing but it is alot more enjoyable. Fish Tank can get very boring and just makes you feel depressed about the world throughout the film through the lack of music and just constantly realistic situations. However Trainspotting makes the audience laugh continuously throughout the entire film although still makeing us feel sorry for the characters and makes us think...

Discuss how important cinematography is in establishing strong responses from spectators to a key character in La La Land - must refer to a scene! In the scene "what could have been" We see the shot pan out on Seb and the lighting brightens and we see the background to be the restaurant from Mia and Sebs first encounter. The shot then cuts to a smiling Mia centre screen in the blue dress she originally wore in that scene making it clear that this is a flashback or Mia's imagination changing how they went about things for a happy ending. The fact that she is the only thing visible makes it easier for the audience to identify that this is replicating that scene which makes it easier for the passive audience members which a low budget in dependent film wouldn't. Then we see an over the shoulder shot where we see Mia observing what we have already seen when Seb loses his job but makes us feel more connected to Mia as both Mia and us the spectators are working out that t...

I think Winters Bone relies upon social context in the scene where Ree and Teardrop are pulled over by the police starting from one minute into the clip. The lighting is very low key to show that the reality of this is very dark and when you know that the context of the film that is an independent neo-realistic film based on real life problems and filmed in the actual area that this is quite sad and depressing. it also tells us the scene is going to be quite dark and makes it quite scary and intense which adds to the fact a cop is there and foreshadows some conflict may take place and pulls the audience in. It is a mid-shot with a hand held camera which can be annoying for some passive audience members as high budget films would use tripods here. We are then shown a mid-shot of Teardrop facing away from the police man with shadows on his face making him look dodgy. we then see a close u of a weapon in teardrops hand which enhances the idea some form of conflict will take place. We then...

When we started to plan our film we came up with a really good initial idea as we strted with messed up fairytales which led us to a messed up version of Alice in Wonderland. For inspiration we looked at a game revolving around a twisted alice in wonderland story and used lines to create the script. We looked for creepy music and sounds to add in. We also agreed what we would need for props and costumes and by the end of the first week had planned it all out ready for filming. The first day of filming was okay we got a bit filmed but struggled to film the second part as we didn't really know or have anywhere to film. Our next two lessons we didn't have the opportunity to film due to missing members. So by the final week we had lost hope for our film as we needed to edit but had barley done any filming. However we decided if we finished all our theory work that day and got all the film on the computers I could go home and try to do something with the footage. So our next les...