how typical are your chosen texts to their genre?

Fish tank is a an example of a social realism genre as well as the 1960's film a taste of honey and saturday night sunday morning. a comparason of these three films shows how genres are always needing to change and adapt to keep there intended target audience interested, they need to be "the same but different" quoted by Nick Lacey. Social realism aims to show the world and life of characters as real as it possibly can, it is said to be similar to a documentry style. Social realism genres include the conventions of a urban setting, hand held camera, unknown actors, gritty day to day struggles, life problems and working class characters. All of these conventions can be seen in the opening scene where Mia and unknown actress (katie jarvis) is dancing in an abandoned run down room which this mis-en-scene instantly shows that she is from a working class area and council estate the camera is unsteady which shows the use of a hand held camera. you see the types of clothes she is wearing which also shows that she is from a working class family as she is wearing a track suit also her accent and exessive use of swearing while on the answer phone to her friend "ring me back you bitch" continues to show that this is a socail realism genre. There is no use of non diagetic sound in the opening scene as it is all comes from with in the film so again reinforcing the documentry style of social realism. Mia is filmed on her own thoughout the opening scene while the groups of boys and girls are filmed altogether this shows that one of Mias problems is that she is lonely and that use of the hand held and groups of people signify this. In the 1960's show called a taste of honey, is was seen as wrong to show sex scenes on tv, so these were always missed out. But nowadays it is more accepted as this is shown in Fish tank where there is a scene where Mia sees her Mother and Connor having sex, this is uncomfortable to watch but also shows the realism in the scene.