Fish Tank genre analysis

The scene I'll be focusing on is where the social worker visits Mia and tries to talk to her about going to study at college. The opening scene is Mia waking up, the audience hearing filtered diegetic sounds as though coming from outside her room. The camera angle is placed next to Mia as though you're in her bed alongside her; showing the audience from her point of view. The tracking shots conform to the realism, allowing you to follow Mia's movements. Disruption occurs when Mia wakes by the sound of her normal family environment (e.g dog barking, thudding) her then beginning to open her eyes, being brought back from the quiet and still of the shots the camera uses when she was sleeping. 

Her mother comes in and states calmly theres someone in the house for her. 

Most texts today mix genres. how true is this of your three main texts ? (District 9)

In the text 'District 9' it is a mixture of documentation style and Sci-fy. These are both prominently shown through different scenes and use prime evidence of the two genres. Examples of the document style genre is shown through the stock footage and the use of interviews of the 'public' that use mid shots and close ups set in the film as simular as a real version; the realistic conventions show the documentary features but only act as a style due to the unrealism. The other half of the mixed genre is Science fiction, the use of high mechanisms and advanced technology opens up this idea of a new distinct world. The use of robots and high tech equipment, contrasting with the Dystopian surroundings and slums the aliens were forced to live in; this shows a diverse mix of representations of the setting. 

-merging

-dystopian

-use of real derelict houses that were once used as family homes

Throughout my three texts I have explored a number of mix genres. In my first text 'Fishtank' the film mixing the two genres social realism and documentary. The different aspects of the film such as the documenting of