Thursday, 11 September 2014

Homework Three- Representation of age and class in 'About a Girl'. (Becky)

The film begins when our main character is showed through a low angle long shot as she stands in a destaurated field where she dances and sings to the song "I'm not that Innocent".


The character becomes a silhouette as the cloudy sky in the background is brighter and more saturated and brighter in comparison to the character creating a deeper contrast.
In the next scene, we the camera/spectator are placed alongside a canal and in the background we can see a derelict rural housing estate, which suggest that our character may come from an un- wealthy area. The grey and desaturated colour of the scenes add to the lack of wealth and increases our opinions of the girls 'working class' atmosphere.

The female character then begins to preach her life and goals to the spectator in a deep Mancunian accent. The audience is able to point out her class or status through the poor pronunciation of her words in her harsh accent. 
The character has a limited vocabulary suggesting that she has had poor education common of a working class citizen. We hear this when she shortens simple words such as 'thing' to 'thingy'.

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