'About a Girl'

'About a girl', Brian Percival, 2001.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JV1_TXm0XHs



Genre: Drama

Camerawork: the shots throughout the film are all portrait close ups with lots of mid shots as the female actor is talking throughout about different subjects, this is as she is narrating all the way through and happens in most scenes. As well there is a large amount of panning when following speech. jump cuts are used continuously throughout which makes the scenes a lot more fast pace 

Narrative: the narrative is a monologue of  young girl from Manchester which talks about her life with her friends, being in a band, not being close to her father which effects her life greatly. The most prominent scene is where she disposes of the baby in the canal which is a big shock to viewers. 

Characterisation: this character develops throughout with mystery as it gets harder to understand the narrative behind the short film as there is a twist in the end where she gets rid of the baby into the river in an emotional final scene

Script: it is a monologue not a script because there is only one speaker throughout, except from the backgrounds noises of her friends singing.

Editing: throughout this film it includes lots of jump cuts between each shot, and also there is many insert shots throughout which poses a faster pace to the film, it builds up all the way throughout in anticipation for the ending.

production values: the production values throughout are low as when the young girl is walking the shot is not smooth, the person is filming whilst walking which gives the shot a bumpy effect, which could of been avoided with better filming equipment.