My Brother The Devil - Analysis

Crew:
Director - Sally Hosaini
Writer - Sally Hosaini
Producers - Gayle Griffiths & Julia Godzinskaya
Music - Stuart Earl
Cinematographer - David Raedeker
Editor - Iain Kitching

Cast:
Rashid - James Floyd
Mo - Fady Elsayed
Izzi - Anthony Welsh 
Sayyid - Said Taghmaoui
Hanan - Amira Ghazalla 

My Brother The Devil is a 2012 British film directed by Sally Hosaini. It is a social realism drama film and its main themes are love, hate, betrayal, family, violence and crime. The Production company for the film was Roots Nest Entertainment and the Wild Horse Films Company. The film earned $10,305 in the box office.  

The story is about two Arab brothers, living in Hackney. Mo idolises his older brother Rash, who is a businessman and a member of a gang as a drug dealer. He is able to use the money for family luxuries at home. This shows he is a caring person.
Mo is robbed by the rival gang and then calls Rash when he spots them at a corner shop. Demons (the rival gang leader) dog gets killed which makes him retaliate and kill Izzi, Rash's best friend. Rash gets a gun and heads to kill Demon but his little brother is there so Rash runs away. 
Rash grows close to Sayyid, a French photographer who was a friend of Izzi. He tells Sayyid that he wants to leave the gang which is when Sayyid offers Rash a job. 
Mo takes ups an offer to fill Rash's place in the gang when Rash ends up in an unexpected relationship with Sayyid.
Mo finds out they are together and tells Rash's former girlfriend that he is gay. She ends up spreading it around the gang. Someone gives rash details on Demons address which is actually a set up to kill Rash. However Rash does escape. 
Mo gets tricked into bringing members of the gang to Rash but ties to divert them when he sees a glove in one of their pockets. Mo ends up getting shot when he tries to protect Rash.
Rash sees Mo after he is release from hospital and they have a conversation. Rash walks away after they hug.

Love, hate and family are all themes that are shown together through Rash and Mo. Throughout the film they grow to hate each other. However they still love and care for each other when they look out for one another at the end of the film. For example, Mo protects Rash from being shot.

Violence and Crime go together hand in hand and are both shown throughout the entire film. This includes fighting, guns and drug dealing.

Betrayal is one of the main themes in the film and occurs a lot. Rash's brother betrays him when he finds out Rash is gay and also takes his place in the gang.
The gang also betrays Rash because they want to kill him after they find Rash is gay. 

Without mise en scene, the audience will not know what the film is about and where it is set. From the shots we can see graffiti on the walls and tall buildings that hold flats. We also see the people living there mainly wearing hoodies and tracksuits to try and blend in to the life of that area and try and stay within the mould that society there has created. Many of the props in the film are guns, drugs, knifes, alcohol and cigarettes. This shows it is a rough area because it connotes the violence and crime that is constantly happening there. 

The cinematography uses a handheld camera a lot to show the rough life of the people living there, and especially the main protagonists. this showed the audience how shaky their lives are living in that area and being surrounded by bad people. Many shots used are point of view shots, showing the audience what the characters see. This makes the audience feel closer to the characters in the film and see the plot through their eyes. 

Most of the cast in inexperienced but the acting within the film seemed very natural and not forced. James Floyd, who played Rash won an ward for best actor in this film. He would make the audience feel close to him because he can be relatable and his character was genuine.

UWantMe2KillHim? - Film (Week 6)

Crew:

Director - Andrew Douglas 

Writer - Mike Walden

Producer - Simon Crocker & Steve Golin 

Music - Jon Hopkins

Cinematographer - Tim Wooster

Editing - Michael Elliot

Cast:

Mark - Jamie Blackley 

John - Toby Regbo

Detective Sarah Clayton - Joanne Froggatt

Janet - Liz White 

Rachel - Jaime Winston

UWantMe2KillHim? is a 2013 British film Directed by Andrew Douglas. It falls within the genres of Drama and Thriller. The production company is Tribeca Films and the movie is 93 minutes long. 

I don't know exactly how much the film make but the budget was low. 

Story Narrative:

A schoolboy, Mark, used chat rooms a lot and falls in love with a girl called Rachel. She's makes him befriend her brother John. Rachel would tell Mark everything about her stories of domestic abuse from Kevin, her boyfriend. John informs him that Kevin had killed Rachel, making Mark plot revenge. He then plans to stab John after an MI5 agent contacts him. It is revealed hat John made up the entire thing. There is no Rachel or Kevin or MI5 Agent. He did it purely to get to Mark. 

Never Back Down - Film (Week 5)

Crew:

Director - Jeff Wadlow 

Writer - Chris Hauty 

Producer - Craig Baumgarten & David Zelon

Music - Michael Wandmacher

Cinematographer - Lukas Ettlin

Editors - Victor Du Bois & Debra WeinField 

Cast:

Jake Tyler - Sean Faris 

Baja Miller - Amber Heard 

Ryan McCarthy - Cam Gigandet 

Max Cooperman - Evan Peters 

Margot Tyler - Leslie Hope

Never Back Down is a 2008 film Directed by Jeff Wadlow. It's falls under the genes of Action, Drama and Sport. The production company is Summit Entertainment and its budget was $20 million. In the box office it made $24 million. The films running time is 110 minutes and it is rated PG-13. 

Story Narrative:

At his high school, Jake helps out a kid who is getting bullied. The boy invited Jake to learn martial arts with his trainer. Jake is then invited to a party of a friends boyfriend. The host of the party has seen footage of Jake helping Max (the boy who was being bullied) and challenged him to a fight. Jake refused but then accepts when his dead father was brought up. Jake unfortunately gets defeated. 

He enters the Beatdown competition just to face Ryan (the host of the party that beat him up). 

Both Ryan and Jake get into the semi-finals but Ryan is disqualified. Jake taps out because Ryan is out and all Jake wanted to do was face him. 

Ryan approaches Jake in the car park and they fight. 

Jake finally wins after a big fight. 

Micro-features Essay - (Draft 2)

The Hunger Games - Katniss and Peeta's Beach Scene.

Hunger Games Catching Fire was released on the 21st November 2013. It was Directed by Francis Lawrence, who also directed Hunger Games Mockingay, I am Legend and Lady Gaga's 'Bad Romance' music video. Its running rime is 146 minutes.
The genre of this film is Adventure, Sci-Fi, and Thriller. Its themes include love, trust, death, friendship, courage and competition.
The films Crew includes Nina Jacobson and Jon Kilik (Producers), James Howard (Composer), Jo Wellems (Cinematographer) and Alan Bell (Film Editor).

The films includes actors like Jennifer lawrence who plays Katniss Everdeen, Josh Hutcherson who plays Peeta Mellark, Liam Hemsworth who is Gale Hawthorne, Woody Harelson who is Haymitch Abernathy, Elizabeth Banks who plays Effie Trinket and Donald Sutherland who is President Snow.

The Production Companies for this film were Color Force and Lionsgate. Its budget was $130 million and in the box office it made $828 million worldwide.

The Narrative of the story carries on from the first movie instalment. After Katniss and Peeta won the 74th Hunger Games, they think they can just live their lives as normal. Until President Snow announces the 75th games, which is called a Quarter Quell. For this, the competitors (one boy and one girl from each district) will be chosen from the existing pool of victors. Katniss is the only female winner from her district. In the arena she teams up with Finnick and Mags, both from district four. What Katniss does not know is that the tributes had a plan with the Game-maker to save everyone and escape. The plan is to eliminate the victors that arent part of the plan first, by connecting wire to the tree that is struck by lightening every night and bring it to the water. The plan fails and the wire is cut. Katniss is attack and goes back to find Peeta buy only sees Finnick. She is about to kill him when she notices the lightening occuring in the sky. She attaches the wire to her arrow and fires it into the sky which causes a black out and the arena to shut down. The blast had Katniss near unconscience. She wakes up in an aircraft on her way to district thirteen because her home, district 12 has been destroyed.

The scene I am analysing is Katniss and Peeta's Beach scene when they are inside the arena.

Mise-en-scene immediately affects the audience with the colours used. The blue tint of colour used to help create the calm atmosphere that is created in the scene. The colour blue symbolises trust, loyalty, wisdom, confidence, intelligence and faith, most of which are noticed within the scene. 

Also, the positioning of the characters and the setting are a big part of mise-en-scene. The scene is set on a beach, with the waves gently flowing and the sunset fading. This is an ideal and romantic location for the audience. Katniss and Peeta (the characters in the scene) are positioned sitting close to each other. This could connote that they have some sort of close relationship. They are relaxed by the way they are sitting which shows they are comfortable in each other’s presence.

Both of the characters are wearing the same costume, a black, white and grey jumpsuit. The colour black means power, elegance, and death, while the colour grey is associated with loss or depression. This links to the story because there is a lot of loss and death. Their costumes are also worn out (dirty and partly ripped in places).

The only prop used in the scene is a gold locket, which Peeta gives to Katniss. Inside it are pictures of her loved ones. The locket gives her a reason to keep going. It is attached to a necklace, so when it is worn; the people in the photos are close to her heart. The colour of the locket is gold, which is precious metal which is associated with love, compassion, and courage. This links very well to the photos inside, because they are if the people she loves most, who are also the most precious to her.

As it is set on a beach, the sea gives off a really calm mood to the audience, making them feel at ease and relax with the sounds and look of it. 

During the kiss, Katniss and Peeta’s body’s turn into silhouettes in some way. The light background makes their bodies look dark. It will make the audience concentrate and observe the image so that they can directly relate to it and hopefully feel the moment.

There is a lot of dialogue and interaction between the two characters during the scene. They both speak with soft voices, which shows how they are comfortable with each other, but also to show the audience that they are being secretive and they are planning something that they don’t want the other characters to know about.

Throughout the scene, there are lots of pauses from each character. This is for dramatic effect and creates suspense for the audience keeps their attentions because they want to know what comes next.

As we know Katniss and Peeta already seem close by the way they are sitting on the beach. But then they kiss, which shows us that they are more than just friends. For the audience, this scene is perfect, the setting, and kissing on a beach when the sunset goes down. The audience will crave this. 

Katniss is much more negative than Peeta in the scene. She sees things in a much more realistic way and notices her surroundings. From this the audience realises how smart she is. Once she has her minds set on something, she will not change it. It shows her determination.

The overall acting is very natural and realistic. We understand this from the pauses in the scene and especially their facial expressions when they pause; it looks like their characters are really thinking about the certain situation. When Peeta gives her the locket, she doesn’t say anything, her facial expressions give away her reaction. The way she looks at the locket makes it seem like she is thinking about them which makes the audience feel sympathy for her because she may never see them again.

Katniss says one line that caught my attention. When Peeta is telling her that without her he’ll have nothing, Katniss says “Peeta...” in a very realistic way. It sounds like her voice is about to crack like she is going to cry. This lets the audience see a softer side to Katniss and how she really does care for Peeta.

The conversation gets really sad during the end when Peeta says he has no one. He puts on a smile even though he is sad. He does this to stay strong for Katniss, because he doesn’t want her to see him sad. The audience feel lots of sympathy for him because they know he isn’t happy but he still smiles through it. Also, Peeta looks to the floor a lot during the scene. This could be because he feels intimidated by Katniss as she is seen as the better fighter. He could also feel embarrassed because he is in love with her, but she isn’t in love with him. 

Katniss looks at the ground after she kisses Peeta, this could be to hide her true feelings from him, but could also mean that she regrets doing that because if they get too attached to each other while they are in the arena, and one of them dies, then the other will be in a very bad state.

After Peeta tells Katniss that no one needs him, she pauses and hesitates, then says “I need you”. She said this so he had something to fight for when he is in the arena. If she didn’t say it, he wouldn’t have anything to live for and would probably give up. However, she hesitated before she said it, debating whether she should say it or not. This makes it seem like she actually has feelings for Peeta and was nervous about telling him.

From Paris With Love - Film (Week 4)

Crew:

Director - Pierre Morel 

Producer - India Osbourne 

Music - David Buckley 

Cinematography - Michael Abramowicz

Film Editing - Frederic Thoraval 

Cast:

Charlie Waz - John Travolta 

James Reese - Jonathon Rhys Meyers 

Caroline - Kasia Smitniak 

Ambassador Bennington - Richard Durden 

From Paris with Love is a 2010 film Directed by Pierre Morel. It's genre is Action/Thriller. It's running time is 92 minutes its production company is EuroCorp. The films budget was $52 million and made $24 million in the box office. The main themes of the film are Love, Trust and Friendship. 

The narrative of the film is about an assistant of the American Ambassador in Paris. James works minor jobs in the CIA. Until he gets partnered with Charlie Wax (John Travolta)  Theyvgovon the hunt for terrorists that deal coccaine that are also going to attack the American Deligation. What James doesn't realize is that one of the terrorist are close to him than he thinks. The suicide bomber going to attack the deligacy is his fiancé Caroline. 

Role Within The Film Industry

James Wan is an Australian Director, Producer and Screenwriter.
He was born on the 26th February 1977 in Kutching, Sarawak in Malaysia.
He is worth and estimated $50 million.

He is known for directing SAW (2004), the Insidious franchise and the Conjuring (2013).

James Wan's Filmography:

Director:
SAW (2004)
- Budget $1.5 million
- Box Office $103.9 million

Dead Silence (2007)
- Budget $22 million
- Box Office $27 million

Death Sentence (2007)
- Budget $20 million
- Box Office $17 million

Insidious (2010)
- Budget $1.5 million
- Box Office - $97 million

The Conjuring (2013) 
- Budget $20 million
- Box Office $318 million

Insidious: Chapter 2 (2013)
- Budget $5 million
- Box Office $161.9 million

Fast and Furious 7 (2015)
- Budget $190 million
- Box Office $1.5 billion

The Conjuring 2 (2016)

Aquaman (2018)


Executive Producer 
SAW 2
SAW 3 
SAW 4
SAW 5
SAW 6 
SAW 3D


Producer
Annabelle
Demonic
Insidous Chapter 3
Lights Out

Video Games
Worked on the Saw video games
Directed the Dead Space game trailer


                   

The Selfish Giant - Analysis

Crew:
Director - Clio Barnard
Producer - Tracy O'Riodan
Writer - Clio Barnard
Cinematography - Mike Elay
Editor - Nick Fenton 
Composer - Harry Escott 

Cast:
Arbor - Conner Chapman 
Swifty - Shawn Thomas 
Kitten - Sean Gilder 
Mary - Lorraine Ashbourne 

The Selfish Giant is a 2013 film Directed by Clio Barnard. Its genre is Drama and Social Realism. The narrative of the story is about two young teenage friends named Arbor and Swifty, who turn to a scarpyard for jobs to try and support their family. Kitten, the man that runs the scrapyard, uses them to his advantage. By putting them into danger and taking their money. He makes them go and retrieve cables from a power station which is where the film reaches its climax. 

Arbor and Swifty are two complety different characters. Arbor is very agressive and restless while Swifty is gentle and slow. Even though the boys different, they are the best of friends which would make the audiences automatically like them because th boys do not care about the differences.

The cinematography used lots of establishing shots in this film. Which keeps the audience remembering where it is set and is closer to home than they think.
The shots show fields with horses on them, which is peaceful. It can represent Swifty and his love for them.
The cinematography could also show juxtaposition. For example, Arbor was going through the street with the horse and cart and also showing up to the school with it.

Another example could be Arbor and Swifty being the only children working at the scrapyard. The audience thinks it is wrong for them to be there but ultimately know it is realistic and happening in the modern day.

Power:
Kitten feels like he has power over the boys and can tell them what to do because they are chuldren. This would make the audience want to help the children because they dont really know what they are doing.

Trust:
The kids do not know Kitten that well but still trust him because he owns the scrapyard. This will frustrate the audience because they know it will not end well for them. 

Friendship:
The boys friendship is very strong, even though they have arguements, they still end up being the best of friends. When Swifty dies, Arbir is heartbroken. The audience will feel sympathy for him because they knew how good friends they were.

Exploitation:
Kitten uses the children to his advantage. He makes them go and do illegal deeds for his benefit, with them not knowing.

Otherwise Engaged - Analysis

Cast:
Megan - Hannah Arterton 
David - Mark Quartly 

Crew:
Director - Alicia MacDonald
Writer - Alicia MacDonald 
Producer - Helen Grearson & Jack Sidey
Cinematography - Gareth Munden
Editor - Myles Robey

Oherwise Engaged is a 2015 short film directed by Alicia MacDonald and is about a man who tries to propose to his social media obsessed girlfriend. The genre of this film is Rom-Com. It shows the modern days obsession with selfies and social media. Everyone these days has the need to document everything on their social media for the world to see. 

In terms of Mise-en-scene, the main prop within the film was a mobile phone which the action seemed to revolve around. Megan interupted David when he was proposing, just so she could film it and post it online. She payed more attention to the phone than the propsal itself. She wanted to document it and post it on her social media so all of her friends can see it. During the actual propsal, she doesnt pay any attention to Dave because all of her attention is on the phone.
After she stops filming, she tells him that he is "So cute" instead of answering the proposal. This shows how she is not actually interested in the proposal itself, but more engrossed in putting it on social media.

This all creates comedy because is very realistic to how people in the modern day would act. It shows how we cannot live without technology and sharing our lives with everyone.

Warm Bodies - Film (Week 3)

Crew:

Director - Jonathan Levine 

Producer - David Hoberman & Todd Lieberman

Music - Marco Beltrani & Buck Sanders

Cinematography - Javier Aguirresarobe

Film Editing - Nancy Richardson  

Cast:

R - Nicholas Hunt

Julie - Teresa Palmer 

Nora - Analeigh Tipton 

M - Rob Corddry

Perry - Dave Franco 

Warm Bodies is a 2013 film directed by Jonathan Levine. It's genres are Comedy, Horror and Romace. The film runs for 98 minutes and its production company is Summit Entertainment. It had a budget of $35 million and made $66 million in the box office. It's main themes is love. 

The narrative of the story is about a zombie names R who falls in love with a human called Julie, he protects her from the other zombies and brings her to his home which is a plane. They form a close relationship which allows R to slowly gain his humanity back. This change in R spread throughout the other zombies which also makes them slowly become human. R and Julie try and convince the humans that the zombies are curing themselves but they take no notice. Bonies (skeleton like zombies) sense the zombies changing back to human, then go after them all. R and Julie are under pressure to make the humans and zombies work together to kill the Bonies and save the zombies. 

 

Thor - Film Analysis (Week 2)

Crew:

Directors -  Kenneth Branagh

Writers - Ashley Miller & Zack Stentz & Don Payne

Producer - Kevin Feige

Music - Patrick Doyle

Cinematography - Haris Zambarloukos 

Cast:

Thor - Christ Hemsworth 

Jane Foster - Natalie Portman 

Loki - Tom Hiddleston 

Odin - Anthony Hopkins 

Thor is a 2011 film Directed by Kenneth Branagh. It fits within the genres of Action, Fantasy and Adventure. It's main themes are love, family, betrayal, and some jealousy. The company that produced the film is Paramount Pictures. The film had a budget of $150million and made over $449million in the box office. 

The film is about Thor, the son of the Kind of Asgard, who is about to inherit the throne when enemies enter Asgard. Thor reacts with violence. His father banishes him from Asgard, sending him to Earth and stripping him from his powers. The throne then goes to his Thors brother, who is plotting evil, going to allow the enemies into Asgard to take over. While Thor is on Earth, he falls in love Jane Foster and she teaches him life lessons. His new strengths come into play when his brother sends a dark force to earth to kill Thor. 

With Mise-en-scene, the clothing is very unique. It is obvious that the characters are from another world, wearing capes and armor and gowns. The outfit of the characters suit the setting of Asgard, especially with Thor and his family because they rule it. The audience know immediately know it is set somewhere else because of it. They can also see by the colours used. The bridge is multicoloured which is unusual for something in life. 

The films uses lots of non Diagetic sound over the top, mainly during the fighting scenes. This is to make it more intense for the audience. It also makes it more entertaining and gripping, making the audience feel adrenaline.

The themes of family, betrayal and jealousy are all shown through Thor, his Brother and his Father. His father and brother betray him by banishing him and stripping him from his powers. The jealousy came into it when Loki (Thor's brother) did not want Thor to take the throne because he though Thor was not fit to be the King.  

Focus - Film Analysis (Week 1)

Crew:

Directors - Glenn Ficarra & John Requa 

Writers - Glenn Ficarra & John Requa 

Producer - Denise Di Novi

Music - Nick Urata

Cinematography - Xavier Grobet 

Cast:

Nicky - Will Smith

Jess - Margot Robbie

Farhad - Adrian Martinez

Owens - Gerald McRaney

Garriga - Rodrigo Santoro

Focus is a 2015 directed by Glenn Ficarra and John Requa. It fits in with the genres of comedy, crime and drama. It's main themes are Love, Trust and Betrayal. The production company is Dune Entertainment and the films budget was $50.1million. It made over double that in the box office, making $144million. 

The story is about an extremely talented conman called Nicky, who takes in s girl called Jess and trains her to pick pocket and how to con others. They fall in love but Nicky's profession of lying and cheating his way through life doesn't fit well with love, so they break up. Then three years later, when Nicky is working for a billionaire race car owner, they meet again. Nicky tries to gain back her love while conning race car owners, selling them all the same car. Once he gains her love and about $27million from selling one car to many people, they try and run away together. But they are stopped in their tracks and held hostage and at gun point. 

The cinematography within the film is very unique. As this film has a lot of conning and pick pocketing, the camera has close up of what to character are stealing and how it's done. 

To go with the pick pocketing scenes, there is main non diagetic music over he top. This is to give off an exciting and up beat mood, showing that if they make one mistake it could all go wrong. The audience are hooked into how the camera shows the close ups of pick pocketing and the music add more to the excitement. 

The film is set in New York City and Argentina. These are quite wealthy locations which shows that the character must be getting lots of money from pick pocketing. The characters also wear very smart and formal clothing which shows how wealthy they are. 

There is one scene in the film where Nicky is showing Jess around their base of operations. As they walk through, there are shots of people counting out money, emptying wallets, scanning bank cards, lining up and counting all of the Jewlery. This shows he audience how big their business is and hints how much money they earn from having this job.

The amount of money they are earning is the audiences dream, and they crave that lifestyle. 

Soft - A Short Film Analysis

Crew:

Director and Writer - Simon Ellis 

Producer - Jane Hooks

Editor - Simon Ellis

Cinematography - Christopher Ross

Sound Design - Tom Bailey 

Cast:

Iain - Johnny Phillips 

Scott - Matthew O'shea

ASBO - Michael Socha

Soft was written and directed by Simon Ellis and is about a father and son who get harassed by a gang. It's budget was £50,000 and won 17 awards. 

During the film, there are scenes thy look like it is filmed from a mobile phone. This can be seen by the bad quality of sound and the camera shaking lots. The amount of shaking from the handheld camera makes the film feel real and makes he audience feel more involved in it. 

The establishing shot is used at the beginning and the end of the film. The first at shot is at the start when the fisher is walking home living his life like normal. The shot is then showed again at the end  after all of the action, when everything looks like it has gone back to normal. 

The editing in the films is very good. It keeps switching from the mobile-like camera that the teenagers have, to the normal camera that is following the father. The fact that it keeps switching shows the audience that both footages are happening at the same time. 

The gangs is wearing the stereotypical dress code for gangs, which is tracksuits with trainers and chains. The leader of the gang is wearing all white which makes him stand or from the rest.

The lighting throughout the film is all natural and even brighter in some places. This shows the audience how much the teenagers care about what they are doing. They don't care whether is it day time or night time to cause havoc. 

 

Get Off My Land - A Short Film Analysis

Crew:

Director and Writer - Douglas Ray
Producer - Johnathan Rawlinson and Amaka Ugwunkwo
Editor - Ted Guard
Director of Photography - George Steel
Sound Design - Oli Cohen

Cast:
Farmer - Robert Glenister
Male - Rafe Spall
Female - Ruth Wilson

Get Off My Land was written and directed by Douglas Ray. It was funded by the UK Film Council. The genre can be seen as dark comedy because there was no need for the farmer to kill the couple. 

The story of the short film is about a young couple in the countryside walking through the fields. They get stopped by a farmer who supposedly owns the land they're walking on. The boyfriend of the couple confronts the farmer verbally about who owns the land. The boyfriend ends up asking for a fight over the land, which is when the farmer walks over to his vehicle and gets out s shotgun. He murders them both. 

The editing within the short film was very simple but capturing. Jumps cuts are used throughout the film which then speeds up when the confrontation happens, and after the farmer murders the couple, it then slows down again. 

The camera shots are also very simple in this film. Many of the shots are establishing the scene, which is a countryside field, and close ups of the characters to show their expressions and how they react to the situation. The camera in the film is handheld which makes the audience feel like they are part of the film and gives off more of a realistic feel. 

BFI Film Festival - Day 2

I travelled from Cousldon South to East Croydon, where we all met. 

We walked past the Gallery to get to the cinema. 

This is the cinema we watched the New British film in. 

Synopsis of the new British film we watched, Ayanda. 

BFI Film Festival - Day 1

We got a train from East Croydon station to Waterloo. 

We arrived at the BFI to watch a few new short films.

We were in cinema 1 in the BFI, which is the biggest one there, and is used for major premieres. 

Here are the 6 films we watched while at the BFI. 

This board showed all the sponsors of the BFI. 

Film Analysis - Fish Tank

Fish Tank is a British film Directed by Andrea Arnold. Its budget was £2 million, was funded by the BBC Films and partly from the UK Film Council. Its release date was 11th September 2009. This films is Social Realism which deals with real life problems.

The main themes in this film are violence and dysfunctional families. These themes are often showed in films of this genre. The main character Mia, is seen to face different problems with her family like being neglected by her mother who is more interested in men and a rude sister who has taken up bad language. However, Mia seems to copy the actions of her mother, by taking up bad language, violence and drinking.

Mia goes to an unowned apartment to a box room where she practises her dancing. This could be seen as a place where she can get away from her troubles back home and forget about reality.

For most of the film, Mia has her hair up and is wearing tracksuit bottoms, hoodies, gold hoop like earrings and trainers, which makes her seem like a gangster or a 'Chav' which suits the film and where it is set, which is a council estate. She blends in with the other people characters that live there because they are wearing very similar things, the girls either wearing tracksuits or short shorts and the men are topless and wearing tracksuit bottoms, usually with a gold chain.

The relationships shown in film seem to be typical and social realist films. The films are most likely to include one of these main relationships; a best-friend, an enemy (antagonist), a love interest that cannot physically work out maybe because of age or background and there is almost always a broken family. In Fish Tank, all four of these relationships are shown, the best-friend being Billy who she moves away with. The enemy being Keeley. The love interest being Conor and the broken family being her mother and little sister.

The camera work in the film is very basic, most of the time the camera is handheld. The use of the handheld camera makes the audience feel a more part of the action instead of just watching the movie unfold. The handheld camera follows the main protagonist (Mia) and stays very close to her. This gives the audience and her some kind of bond, where we understand her and are more closer to her than other character within the film. The scenes when the camera is perfectly still, are the quiet ones where the scenes are calm and where the characters feel safe and have nothing to worry about.

The films is mostly non dietetic sound and dialog. With no sound effects, it makes the film feel more real and natural. Constant swearing is used throughout the film which suits the setting of the film as swearing is seen as rude. The film didn't over exaggerate the amount of swearing used. Although there was a lot of swearing, it was a suitable for the place the film was set.