Mt first text, Andrea Arnold's Fish Tank, is typical of its genre because it conforms to the typical genre conventions of the Social Realism genre. There are a mixture of technical and contextual conventions such as sue of only diegetic sound/music, Handheld camera and narrow depth of field and the problems with with under class lifestyle and injustices.
The first genre convention is the use of only Diegetic sounds because this reinforces the realism if the situation and makes the films as realistic as possible. Through the text the audience always see the source of the sound or music whether it be speech or a portable CD play. This can be seen When Mia William (Katie Jarvis) is practicing her dancing in the old abandoned flat and the audience see her set up a CD player and a set of speakers; this is too make sure that the viewer watching it know that the music is diegetic sound and therefore more accurate to real life.
Another technical convention of social realism films is the use of handheld camera and use of narrow depth of field. The use of the Handheld camera adds yet more realism to the scene because it seems that the cameraman/source is walking. This can be seen when Connor O'Riley (Michael Fassbender) is chasing Mia after she has just kidnapped his daughter. The camera is tracking them and shaking uncontrollably as the handheld camera follows them. This put the viewer in the position of a character and therefore adds to the realism.
Lastly, another convention is the narrative is set in a time of of social change and focuses in social injustices, in this case it is the under class and the idea that they are trapped in "Fish Tank" that they can't escape because they don't value education, have no jobs and live in a council estate. In my text, the narrative is set in between London and Dagenham , which is an area of huge social deprivation. Within the text, the main character Mia
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