How typical are your chosen texts to their genre's?

Fish tank's genre fits very well to a typical social realism film. The opening to the film in the first scene uses diegetic sound of someone breathing very heavily, with diegetic sound of passing cars. The typical conventions of a social realism film is an urban location along with fish tank, the highrise buildings, run down park, gangs another example of this being used by other social realism films is "A taste of honey" The urban location dark location with working class. Fish tank uses a handheld camera, taking in things from her point of view making the audience feel like the story is real, for example again in the first scene mia is watching the girls dancing while the group of lad watch them, the camera moves from mia looking at the girls in her point of view to mia's face and reaction to what is going on, the main character Mia is also shown as a alienated character, everyone else around her is with someone else whereas she is constantly alone, walking very fast to which seem nowhere really. Another typical convention of social realism is the way the characters dress to where they live, for example the urban clothes, baggy vests or hoodies with tracky bottoms and hoop earrings show the cheap style of working class making everything more realistic, the boys show a social realism representation of chavs again creating a urban lifestyle feeling by no tops, covered in tattoo's with tracky bottoms and a barking dog.