Research and Planning: 'Wasp' {[Charlea]}

Wasp 2003
1. Life on the brink of poverty in East London. It was very modern, very with the time, it touches upon different parenting skills and single parent familys. Also in some ways it's about not haveing the help or the money to be able to have time to yourself and aslo be with your children. A young mother with three girls and one baby boy.

2. The shots they used for the surrounding and of the children when they were together were really inspiringing , the close ups and steady cam made the action more intense and you got really close to the characters. This helped the audience build a relationship with them so you could share their emoitions and also become attached to the story line. You need to be close to the characters in this story to be able to fully understand and take in the story line. For a social realism piece it works well with big gestures and also extream senses, standing by the road in your nightgown with no shoes on. The way the director used the extream close ups was inspiring, it really brought your attention to the characters.

3. The film fitted the format well because it had a begining were you got introduced to the characters, the way they speak and dress, the use of the colloquial accent made the characters more real, and able to fit better within the surroundings. The beggining of the film was quite restricted as it went striaght into meeting the characters. You weren't really aware of your settings and you were immidently put into the action. The middle the build up to the climax was really good because of the overlapping of the shots, and the way they cross cutted, the children outside the pub and the mother in the pub. In our film i wish to add this as it will crate dramatic effect for the audience, they will see a meeting but not be for sure why.

4. The use of sound was very naturalistic, it was all diagetic, there was no non-diegetic sound on set which added to the drama of the piece because the audience was not destaracted by the sound in the background. This was inspiering because it ment you didn't need to have background music to create an efftect, silence can be just what it needs

5.Single parent familys living in London on benifits, that are on the brink of poverty and finding it hard to have a normal social life as well as having four children is the main issue underlying this film. In some ways your sympothetic towards the characters where as on the other hand it is shocking to see how she still has her children when she leaves them outside a pub, not had any food, and unsupervised. You want her to keep her children but on the other hand you know it may be better for them if they went into care, as she hasn't got the money to look after and feed them properly, hence in one of the middle scenes all the bread is moldy.