Component 3 - CourseWork

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 a...