Isaac - About A Girl Evaluation

 

"ABOUT A GIRL" - BRIAN PERCIVAL (2001)

 

Brian Percival

  

Class Accent/vocabulary – she uses slang words and phrases such as ‘Dead good’, ‘Thingy’ and often can’t think of the correct words to use. She also swears a lot for someone aged 13. This conveys the feeling that she is not particularly well educated and her mother has not necessarily been a good influence on her, although we are not actually told so. Costume – The young girl does not look as if she is particularly well groomed or well dressed, wearing a cheap, functional headband and coat. She also has an inexpensive hairstyle and big hoop earrings which again conveys her class, showing her family may not have money to spend on unimportant things. Current time, walking along canal This style of clothing is then seen again as we revert to her past and see her parents. We see her dad wearing a set of tracksuits which is a stereotype clothing. Daughter and Father in flashback Sound/Dialogue - We hear from the dialogue that her dad is looking for work, Although when she says it, she doesn't seem to serious, meaning he is on benefits and is planing to stay that way. This shows that there is no proper income coming into their family which might make them an underclass family rather than a working class. It also shows the lack of motivation in the family which might be more apparent in a higher class family. ‘knock off beer’ ‘Do I look like a fucking bank’ Mise en Scene/Setting - Canal filled with rubbish Mise en Scene/Setting - Terrace houses Mise en Scene/Setting - Boarded up house windows Mise en Scene/Prop - Graffiti Dialogue/Sound - Thinks Bacardi is a posh drink

Age Editing - Percival uses jump cuts to enforce how children think. Dialogue/Sound – she say’s she’s 13 Pub – only allowed a coke Big goals – rich and famous Dialogue/Sound – ‘I’m not a kid anymore’ Dialogue/Sound – always changing subject Singing with her friends on the bus Camera - Handheld camera