Research Task 3

Wasp (Andrea Arnold, 2003)

• Hand-held camera emphasises movement and creates spontaneity. Convention to the social realism genre.
• Over-the-shoulder shot of the man in the car- witness the character from the woman's p.o.v.
• Interesting extreme close up of her toes curling on the pavement-shows her fear and nervousness towards going out on a date and her children
• Props: Shakespeare Road (irony as its a lower working class area) post box and telephone box. Council estate. Realism and emphasises the dramatic tension and class struggle
• Poetic establishing shots of the countryside- for relief from the gripping drama
• Close ups of the children's faces playing in their flat- captures their emotion of boredom and creates sympathy for the characters
• Locations & Mise en scene: Pubs, Block of flats and roads= lower class area, run down
• Once again, side profiles of the woman and man- intimacy, loving and romance
• Cutaway of romantic moment and the children waiting outside the pub= suggests the unfair treatment of the children, represents the struggling working class
• Natural lighting- for realism, gritty
• Close up of baby crying and the off-screen diegetic sound of rying and the little child's singing the MCD's song
• Great use of hand-held camera, but controlled to suggest tension
• Very emotional drama!!!