This document is the perfect note form summary for those studying Shaun Meadows ‘This is England’, for the British Film section of the WJEC A Level Film Studies course. This document includes detailed key scene analysis with the evidence divided into specific micro elements, ready to support y...
Opening
sound. * upbeat music - irony with clips war and
of protests -
unsettling audience response.
sounds foreign, Britain as multicultural. * The alarm clock radio. Thatcher's crackly voice - abruptly
mis-en-scene. turned off by Sharn - doesn't
n ear politics, not involved/doesn'tu nderstand -
deaf to the politics of the time.
* montage divided -
country - strines - protest
↳ Mods us rockers -
strife -- within the nation.
editing. A archive footage montage, social political context
of80seal monal wedding a ends we was clips.
Cultural marking points
↳ of that era of England. * fade out from montage to picture of Shawn's bad. A graphic match soldiers clip to the framed
* costumes of the school kids extreme 80s style. picture a
immediately established idea.
paternal role as a key theme,
* Shaun's bedroom -
shabby furnishings-peeling
Wallpaper poverty-working +
class -
generic house
einematography. archive footage creates
The use of realism, allows the viewer to recognise
* shawn in his white pants young and innocent.
-- this is
that reflecting the way England really was in 1983.
hunting
sound. I snaun's high pitch laughter-peonastically neiantenned in the foreground
-P focus is. * Chanting -> accepted into group. * humorous dialogue after Gadget hits
mis-en-scene.
on how happy he the
outfits -
clear its a game-fun and carefree
editing a fastp aced editing mirrors the exciteable chaos as they destroy the devilicthouse.
↳ brightand exciting -> image of Peter * fades at the end as they walk away, happy nostalgia.
Gadgets
cinematography.
and the lostboys further shown in -
I now level shots from shaur's for we experience the fun through his
Davy Crockett raccoon hat childish adventure
eyes-alignment.A camera track the brick Gadget throws through the already smashed window
* pieces of military uniforms -
from their Dads?
* shot woody wi shaun on shoulders - surrogate father.
↳reference to the falklands backdrop.
NF meeting
sound. The audiences whoops, cheers and applause gets louder each time the speaker pauses.
->
sound of male agression. I focus on the speaker's dialogue whole scene-lengthy monologue.
mis-en-scene.
* 'send them back's repeated phrase 'land of hope and glorysong playing - cringey grim patriotism.
* run down pur, dull B gritty poverty +lower class.
↳ wonky tiles,
roof peeling plaster, dirty
editing x a sound
use of bridge -we near the speaker's speech startbefore the snot cuts
from outside to inside -
immediately draws focus to his voice and dialogue.
~ skinhead uniform intimidating
-
t scary.
· Jolly sailor'-irony -
British humour + the dull
grey say-realism, depressive, foreboding * Combo's
einematography. unflattering close ups align
of speaker we don't
-
unlikeable
* shot-reverse
-
shot, audience i speaker call I response -
mindset. A long snot
cult Gadaet's' send
red;acket antagonistic- (plate, uneducated.
-
them back -> someone the audience love a shots fighter as speech becomes more intense -
all consuming aspect
* sagging flag, dated lampshadest union jams.
ending
sound.x softsad piano score over archive footage sequence -
somber and mournful tone.
* The Smiths' please let me get I
w hat want's desperation and need for peace in England.
mis-en-scene.
* soft intimate dialogue between Shawn B Cynthia -
familial bands rebuilt.
* Shawn by himself in a blue jacketagain -
cyclical structure. * soldiers welcomed home
editing. Parchive footage montage sequence again-focus on the end of the war.
↳i country coming back together-re-united
grey and dull tinto n screen-blueish very
cinematography
-
*
somber and reflective image of flag being close ups ofShaun s cuntnia -
emotional moment-intimacy closeness
thrown into the sea-rejecting the white * straighton shawn-he's
close up of B
indignant challenging.
Nationalistideology.
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