Directed by Andrea Arnold
Within the 24 minute short film of real life story of a young single mother with her 3 children and a baby, and the problems she has to face living her life. Arnold demonstrates a negative view of this lifestyle through lack of money and dirty surroundings.The director herself, developed an interesting and clever camera sequence to correspond with the mood and themes throughout the film. Through hand held camera shots, such as in the establishing shot, when the children and the mother are running down the stairs of the council estates, this shows a real life feeling of the situation, which establishes a type of documentary style.Other edits like quick cut-aways and swift transitions between scenes. The film was visually fantastic, the use of extreme close-ups, such as crane shot over the woman, Zoe's, bare feet on the road with her red nail varnish and that of the wasp on the window.The stereotypical single mother is demonstrated efficiently through her clothes, in the first scene she is wearing a long nightie with bare feet, hair down and messy. Then later she wears heels, a really short skirt to reveal her arse, and a tight skimpy top, with her hair up in a pony-tail, and lots of make-up. This shows her to be tacky yet troubled which can connote a woman of that background in the area, and in the time of the 90s. This can also demonstrate the prejudice of her having lots of children due to her showing off her body and also the lack of care and concern.The style of this short film is appealing to work with, the real life settings and hand-held camera work to make it seem more personal with a slight documentary feel. This has inspired me to create a story of real life and show all the feelings involved through brave camera shots and frames and not be afraid to use a hand-held.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0388534/ - Internet Movie Database about the film 'Wasp'.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BN6BSVl1zQY - a clip from the short film.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrea_Arnold - About the director Andrea Arnold.
Within the 24 minute short film of real life story of a young single mother with her 3 children and a baby, and the problems she has to face living her life. Arnold demonstrates a negative view of this lifestyle through lack of money and dirty surroundings.The director herself, developed an interesting and clever camera sequence to correspond with the mood and themes throughout the film. Through hand held camera shots, such as in the establishing shot, when the children and the mother are running down the stairs of the council estates, this shows a real life feeling of the situation, which establishes a type of documentary style.Other edits like quick cut-aways and swift transitions between scenes. The film was visually fantastic, the use of extreme close-ups, such as crane shot over the woman, Zoe's, bare feet on the road with her red nail varnish and that of the wasp on the window.The stereotypical single mother is demonstrated efficiently through her clothes, in the first scene she is wearing a long nightie with bare feet, hair down and messy. Then later she wears heels, a really short skirt to reveal her arse, and a tight skimpy top, with her hair up in a pony-tail, and lots of make-up. This shows her to be tacky yet troubled which can connote a woman of that background in the area, and in the time of the 90s. This can also demonstrate the prejudice of her having lots of children due to her showing off her body and also the lack of care and concern.The style of this short film is appealing to work with, the real life settings and hand-held camera work to make it seem more personal with a slight documentary feel. This has inspired me to create a story of real life and show all the feelings involved through brave camera shots and frames and not be afraid to use a hand-held.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0388534/ - Internet Movie Database about the film 'Wasp'.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BN6BSVl1zQY - a clip from the short film.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrea_Arnold - About the director Andrea Arnold.
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