Fish Tank

Clip 4

In this scene Mia dances for Connor in her front room. the majority of this scene is filmed to show how he watches her dance through a scopophilic way through the unnerving slow paced editing. This use of slow editing makes the scene challenging to watch because the camera shot lingers on Mia as she dances for unsettlingly long amount of time to give a sense of intimacy. Furthermore the scene is shot in low key lighting and the only light source is the street lights out side, this use of lighting helps convey the seediness of the scenario and adheres to how social realist films often contain controversial themes, such as paedophilia. This is also later shown by how the camera remains fixed on the two characters rather than looking away like in more mainstream texts, this makes it even more uncon=mfortable to watch for the audience.
In the mise en scene of the living room we can see that one of the walls in the room is decorated with a tropical beach wall paper which conveys that the family wish to escape the area they live in. this is a common convention of the social realist genre.
As she dances Mia is shown as a silhouette, which connotes that she is an object of Connors desire. This is reinforced when the shot cuts to show his point of view. Furthermore women are often shown in social realist films to exist for the men rather than independent. Also it shows how naive Mia is which is also a social realist convention of women.