During the beginning of this clip the first amount of film shown was shown to be a group of hooded people (Representing rebellious youth through clothing) taking un-known chemical substance which is also shown to affect their actions. While the lighting was dark and only a little shown to show the bottle, smoke and gun the camera shot was shown to be a hand held camera. This hand held camera shot against the lighting created the sense of a mobile filming by one of the hooded youths but also a sense of reality as if the clips were actually evidence/ real footage compared to a studio set up production.
Progressing on from this, the rebellious youth are shown to be once again using the hand held camera, to create the sense of once again a real footage 'mobile film' of them shooting a gun but also riding the small motorbike in a circular motion against an innocent victim. The hand held camera really focused on the small explosions from the gun which can be seen as quick sparks but also the mother in the distance trying to protect the baby until she was actually shot dead. The reality of the sense of real footage really represented the emotions of fear towards the audience as they began with fear for the victim before it began to become an anger towards the youth. This reality continued as the camera was used in a blurred motion, only revealing the movement of the floor but also the bottom section of half the bike as they picked up speed, and spoke about her death. This became a lead up to the main use of the hand held camera. The lorry accident. Even though the lorry was shown briefly in a close up shot of the movement of the camera, the camera was quickly used in a response that the lorry hit them. The fact the camera kept the constant movement of tipping over / flipping sides, while it moved in the air before landing on the floor, kept the shear panic of emotion but also let the accident become a realistic situation that was sudden and did not last very long.
Contrasting against the actions of this extreme situation of hate and stupidity of rebellious youth, the basic and boring life of an old aged man was shown. The lighting continued to range from a realistic feel to the point, the audience was able to locate the windows. Even though the basic movements from moving in the bed to cleaning the crumbs, show a small story. The cleaning of the crumbs alone, really show the audience even though they may be consciously acknowledging the situation, the cleaning of the crumbs represents that he likes to keep the area clean. This led to the point that he was almost going to be cleaning the rubbish from society. Later on during his daily routines on Harry browns ordinary life on visiting his wife, the shot of the underground was focused on mainly on his many walks. The shot of him checking his watch before it reverse shots back to the tunnel represents his need to take the tunnel due to the lack of time, whilst his own intuitions tell him different as he knows the actions of his own area too well.
Even though the many scenes reveal dark lighting in rooms and only the natural lighting from a window is shown, I believe the main focused scene with lighting is when Harry Brown is shown to run to an empty room, where his wife once laid. Whilst the room is shown to be a dark, shadowed room with only a small amount of amber lighting, the pale white lighting falls onto the empty hospital bed with no covers. This scene can really tug at the audiences emotional strings, as the loss is shown to hit Harry like a beating from the rebellious youth he lives among.
Another scene which was really shown, was the close up shot of the two fish in the tank. In this close up shot but also depth of field, one fish is shown to be swimming around in the emptiness, catching air while possible, while the fish in the depth of field is shown to be placed upside down and dead. This shot reveals the life of the old man but also other older residents living the area, dying whilst the younger youth can keep up and cause chaos to keep on surviving in such a rough area. This fish scene can also hint the future scenes like a prediction of a future death in the big area of chaos, whilst the smart ones continues to breath air and survive. ›
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