Wasp Analysis

How does Andrea Arnold use micro features to create meaning in Wasp? (Scene starts 08:16)
Mise-en-Scene
From the introduction of the film to the end, Andrea employs a pale colour pallete to assymiilate all scenes and to recognize them under the British Socially realistic asthetic. Scenes throught the short film seem dull and look as though the rich colours have been removed, further driving the reflection of the poor lives of the characters in the scenes.
During the scenes at home, the blocking in the scenes is purpously very copmact, tight and enclosed- having the characters usually fill up the screen. The purpose of this is to create an image which directly reflects the entrampment these characters feel in their everday home-life. Moreover, Andrea tends to stick to this rule, to perhaps make the outside scenes feel less squashed and so emphasise the durastic change between home life and life outside.
At the 23:02 mark, Andrea’s use of sharp unatural lighting heavily accentuates the explsion-of-emotion which occured between the characters. The fact the light is at a high angle, overshadowing the main characters and protagonist, can be seen as a sign of the spectators or everyday people judging the social groups of low socioeconomic citizens.


Cinematography
The fact the Wasp’s image is heavily dependant on it being handheald enchants the scenes imagery with a natural and frightningly realistic visual. Most of the time, the spectator can feel as if they’re watching the characters interact from another human’s prespective, due to this, and therefore can begin to form empathy for the protaginist and resentmant for the anatognist.
Furthermore, Andrea Arnold’s repeated use of high angle, medium / close-up shots of the objects used or near the protagnist acts as a reminder to the spectators of the poor, dirty, polluted enviroment the characters have to live in and recreate daily. This can also be explaine as Andrea Arnold’s comment on the surroundings and enviroment of which he decided to shoot the film in.
On 09:33, the family is walking over a bridge. The area is heavily populated. At this point Andrea Arnold switches the scene to reveal a long-shot to show 100s of other cars move across. This is done to show how the protagonist find themselves in a world amongst many people simmilar to them. This may be Andrea’s commentry on British low socioeconomic life.
Editing
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Sound
The whole short film produces the narrative without any background theme tune or music. This further enhances the realistic immersion that hooks the spectator. Having no sound apart from what is actually making sound in the scene forces the spectator to concentrate more on whats going on in the scene as they are offered no distractions.
During the club scene, British music is played in the background as an ambience for the scenes interaction. This not only acts as a suttle reminder of where the scene is being held but also as a cultural choice by Andrea. The song ‘Hey Baby (Uhh, Ahh)’ by DJ Otzi, was a 2008 song, which was accompanied by a music video showing different tourists in london from different places around the world. This decision was done by Andrea to contrast the simple ‘stereo-typical’ British life of going to a pub with a different culture - travelling the world.

Comments

  1. Miss CraderJanuary 15, 2019 at 10:19 AM


    "Scenes throught the short film seem dull" - try to use specialist terminology (desaturated)

    "The fact the light is at a high angle" - high angle is more of a cinematographic term. Aim for top lighting instead (or under lighting for low angle)

    "The whole short film produces the narrative without any background theme tune or music" - what are the key terms for sound? Remember to use diegetic/non-diegetic

    Overall, this would benefit from some careful proof reading. It may be worth writing in Word to begin with, as this will help to identify spelling errors.

    You need to ensure you use specialist terminology throughout, so revise the key terms.

    Mr Boon

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