My chosen text, Andrea Arnold's Fish Tank, is typical of its genre social realism in various ways. One technical convention that shows the typicality of the genre is the use of a hand-held camera and shallow depth of field. This makes the audience understand the characters and gain an empathetic feel for them. One example of this is found in the scene where Connor leaves Mia's mum, Joanne, and the protagonist Mia attempts to catch him just as he's leaving, she sprints out the door and down the flats stairs in desperation. The hand-held camera follows her from behind, this makes you feel more involved in the film as the camera is wobbling around as if it was you behind her.
Another typical convention that shows that it is typical of its genre is the use of digetic sounds, and that the film at not one point uses non-digetic sounds.
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