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.