How Typical is your chosen text to its genre?

Fish tank is typical to its genre of, social realism, and conforms to this through the different elements used within scenes, for example the sex scene. 

Within this scene when Mia is looking at Connor, we see this in a shot of her point of view. As we see her eyeline in a camera shot of her, which its then edited and cut to a shot of Connor, showing what she is looking at is him. This is typical of the social realism genre because by showing it in her point of view, allowing the audience to feel empathy towards Mia. Another technical convention which adheres mid-shot of Mia resting on Connor's shoulder, this shot is held for longer than what may be seen as necessary, to the point where the audience feels uncomfortable watching. This conforms to the genre as it is a classic technical convention of slow pace, which put the audience in uncomfortable positions which other genres would not. 

A narrative theme convention that conforms to social realism is showing issues within society that are not usually shown, in concern to the under class, as well as society not accepting these issues. An example of this, within this sex scene, is the issue of under age sex, as Mia is 15, as well as pedophilia. As in this scene Connor is seen, once again, to be grooming Mia, by complementing her, and showing affection to her, which takes advantage of Mia's naivety. 

The mise on scene also conforms to the genre. With the typical unpolished setting of a messy lounge, as well as Connor being shown drinking vodka from the bottle. The setting and props used here are typical to social realism, at it shows part of the problems the under class face, such as drinking problems, as well a unhygienic, small housing leading to poor quality of living. However within this film this is treated as normal, as Mia doesn't hesitate to question Connor drinking vodka straight from the bottle, which may be seen as abnormal and not socially acceptable.   

The Hunger Games contains typical and re-occuring conventions from the Sci-Fi genre. The genre conventions could be categorised as narrative themes, character roles, iconography/mise en scene and technical conventions. The narrative is typical of the genre in many ways.

The narrative theme of a hegemonic society, where these is a distinct class difference, between the ruling class and under class, is present in The Hunger Games. The scene this is evident in is when Katniss and Peeta are taken onto a glamorous train, to reach the capital. The has pristine decor, including diamond channellers, extravagant food, as well as Effie wearing over the top clothing, including a large wig, purple lipstick, pink eyelashes, pale skin, modernised Elizabethan clothing etc...   

What film noir conventions are present within Drive?

Drive adheres to typical conventions of film noir, within the technical, mise en secene and iconography, character and narrative themes conventions.

Technical Codes 
The contrast of low key lighting, throughout, on Ryan Gosling face emphasises the battle of good versus the bad, a connotation which is typical of a noir film, linking with character traits of a cynical protagonist. This is evident within the hotel room scene, when Ryan Gosling has just killed two men, with blood splatted on his face, he slowly walks back into completely dark lighting, this conveys the bad actions he has just done, he then has slight light come into his face, reflecting the element of good, as his reasoning is not only protect himself, as he considers himself as worthless, but instead to protect Irene.

Also the camera angle shots connotes to narrative themes, as it shows the gender politics, typical of film noir. This is also evident in the hotel scene, as when Ryan Gosling is pinning down Blanch, when he's seen, in her perspective, a low angle shot is used, and when Blanch is shown, in his view a high angle shot is used. This evidentially shows she is looking up at him, therefore gaining power, whereas he looks down on her, showing she is lower and less powerful than him, which is also show through him having to protect her.

Narrative Themes
A common narrative theme within the film noir genre is mistrust and paranoia. This is evident in the narrative through Blanch being in on the job, therefore creating mistrust between her and the driver, however there is also mistrust on top of that between the people who she's working with, who actually kill her.