How typical is your chosen text of its genre? Fish tank - clip 5

How typical is your chosen text of its genre?

The text I have studied is 'Fish Tank'. 'Fish Tank' falls into the genre of Social Realism. The concept of social realism is to enable the audience to gain empathy for the under represented characters within the text. The text mostly conforms to this genre by using different social realism conventions throughout.
An example of a technical convention present in the film is the use of shallow depth of field. Shallow depth of field is present throughout the whole film however a specific example would be when she's waking up in her bed, Mia is in focus and everything else such as the sheets and background are blurred and hazy. The shallow depth of field is a convention of social realism as it sees as the human eye would see, this enables the audience to see as if they were there. However when Mia's mum comes into the room she then becomes the main focus, giving us a point of view shot of what Mia is also seeing, which conforms to the the concept of empathy within the genre.