To what extent are your chosen texts typical of their genre?

Fish Tank is a social realism film made in east London.
It is typical of it's genre because it is made with a hand held camera, and it has very little editing.
Throughout the entire film, the hand held camera follows Mia, the main character, and if it's not following her, it is on her so that we are looking at her from someone else's point of view. The hand held camera makes the viewer feel as though they are in the film, as though it is real and that the viewers are onlookers.
The lack of editing means that the shots are usually very long and drawn out. This is typical of social realism because it makes the shots more realistic. It makes the viewer feel as though they're in the film because life doesn't have any editing, and neither does this film.
The actors in the film have very regional accents, they are very broad and obvious as to where they are from. This is conventional of social realism because it is natural and there is nothing done to change the voices of the actors. This maintains the social realism effect. This is also social realism because it shows that the film wasn't made in a studio or edited to be changed. It shows that the film was made on sight, that it was real people and real places.