The clip starts of with the protagonist, Mia, dancing in her kitchen to a music video on the television. As she is watching the video she is copying the moves and expressions of the woman on screen being shown as sexualised and provocative. This is a feature that happens more than once in the film when Mia is dancing or watching people dance. As this film is based in urban, working class environments, many of the representations of success and wealth are shown through the television and music videos. This causes Mia to aspire to be a dancer as she may feel it is her only way of becoming successful and getting away from the environment she seems to be stuck in.
Another convention which is extremely typical of this genre is the male character role. During the short clip of the film, Connor, the lead male character is introduced to Mia. As she is dancing in the kitchen she turns around and he is standing in the doorway watching her. He also compliments her on her dancing, to which she then responds in quite an aggressive and defensive manner, however when his back is turned to her, she begins to admire his body, looking him up and down as the camera shoots from her point of view to capture the sense of realism in the scene. It also becomes apparent, later on in the clip when Connor leaves the flat, as the calm between the characters suddenly turns into chaos
good introduction into the genre of the text and the text itself
ReplyDeleteanalyses the character roles within in the text and within social realism films
you can picture what scene it is from reading the analysis
maybe could include iconography of the kitchen and the females in the kitchen- kitchen soap drama
You also could establish what the shots are to include more terminology in the analysis
could also include why she responds in aggressive manner and what it tells us about her character
overall a brilliant analysis that allows the reader to discover the representations and character roles in a social realism film