Wednesday 28 November 2012
Monday 26 November 2012
fish tank
To what extent are your chosen texts typical of their genre? [30]
Fish Tank is a social realism film pushing the boundaries to put the real life experiences of Britain on screen, typical conventions of a social realism film are handheld camera, focus on the main character and the life they live in, non famous actor/ess's making the film feel more realistic this helps the audience to relate to the film a lot more as the audience feels they are going through her life and problems with her, another is the 'kitchen sink' which is used quiet a lot in the film the first 'kitchen sink' shot is where Mia is boiling some water on the hob when she see's a music video, she starts to copy the women dancer, by rolling her body, quiet slowly as she is doing this we meet Connor for the first time who walks in and comments on her dancing, this shows the representation of women and the way girls think males are interested in sexy dancing, earlier back in the film Mia see's a group of girls dancing the same body rolling way while a group of males are watching them, this could be the reason why Mia started to dance like this in the kitchen.
Friday 16 November 2012
To what extent are your chosen texts typical of their genre? [30]
Sin City has a range of different genres making the film a hybrid. This gives the postmodern film a variety of genre, Film noir, comic and horror, the main genre is film noir making the others sub genres. The film is very typical to the genre containing many conventions of a film noir for example down beat jazz, always night time with rain, thunder and lightening, flashbacks and also the characters using a femme fatale to sexually maniplulate the protagonist, usally resulting in death. The genre also backs up the typical film noir by using the urban background as film noir films reflect the "chilly cold war" period. The style of film that reflects the times and society which they were made in, making the film feel more realistic and scary relating to the sub genre horror.
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