Analysis of Waterloo Road - Justin bullies Leo

Analysis of Justin bulling Leo Waterloo Road:

In this essay I will be talking about the clip that Justin bullies Leo, this clip is from Waterloo Road, I will be talking about camera, sound, editing and mise-en scene and how bullying has been shown in this clip.

There are a range of angle positions throughout the clip, but there is mainly some mid shots, close up and the 180 rule. By having the 180 rule it helps the audience know who is talking and it makes them follow the protagonist follow what is being said.  There is an establishing shot showing the audience where this is taking place and it gives it some sort of tension towards the clip.  The camera is position in a relation to the subject of the shot that is being taken, it is at a an eye angle position, also the camera is over Justin shoulder and when Justin goes to talk the camera angle changes but it sticks to the 180 rule but goes over Leo shoulder, to show the protagonist who is talking and what is being said in the clip.  The camera does not move much but it zooms out a bit when the girl gets involved and but then continues to be a mid-shot of the characters. The way that Justin grabs Leo’s arm it grabs tension because it makes the audience think what is he going to do Leo and the angle position is a mid-shot as it shows the audience half of his body and you have a clear understanding towards what is going to happen. When they talk the camera angle moves each time to show the audience who is talking this is called a 180 angle because it is not moving too much and keeping within the distance. When the teacher gets involved it the camera position changes and it grabs the audience perspective that what has just happened isn’t good and the camera changes from a 180 angle to a close up of the teachers face and talking to the students.

The sound that has been included is the characters talking and the bell going off telling the students that they have to go to their lessons, but the bell goes off quite some times as Justin and Leo bump into each other a lot which could signify that there is some sort of conflict between both of them, as Justin wants to figure out where Tiffany lives as his parents won’t tell him but there is more of a chance of them telling Leo and then Leo would tell Justin. When the bell goes off twice in the scene it signifies that they are running late to their lesson and that they are not following the rules which have been set.

Throughout this clip there has been some editing so that it all links together as when Leo goes over to speak to Flloyd as they are talking about something different in this part and it does not included Justin, meaning that they would have to link the clip together, there is many transitions because there is a jump cut because it cuts from one scene to another and there is editing to make the sound and the clip link together. There is a cross cutting where there is different people talking and then goes back to the main character, which also grabs tension to the audience because it makes them think what is going to happen. There is also diegetic sound in the background as when Leo and his brother Justin are talking you also here other voices in the background talking.

The type of gender that this is directed at is young teenagers from the ages of 13 to16 because they are in school and these types of episodes grab their attention and the advert makes them want to watch it as well, and as it is based in school it is more likely to be for their age.

The props that they have used is things that you would normally have in a school and to make it look realistic. Each of the characters have a different appearance meaning that there is some nice people and some that are badly behaved and it gives it some sort of tension because you will never know what will happen in the episode. The setting that it is taken place is a school and that means that you will never know what will happen because there is always some sort of tension in school, like in this scene there is bullying between two brothers as they are trying to find out where Tiffany is because their parents separated them and Leo is scared of his brother as he doesn’t know what things he would do.  The costumes that they have is a shirt, tie, blazer and trousers which is the sort of thing that you would wear to school and the uniform that they wear is formal which makes them seem that they are coming to school to work and not joke around. When Leo went over to his locker it made the scene have a different affect, also by having teachers around them at the time means could signify that they have teachers all around the school at break, lunch or during lesson time because they do not know what will happen whilst being in school. The colours that have been used in there uniform is primary colours as they are simple and it goes well with the colours that have been used in the screen.

When the teachers go and speak to Leo, Justin and the girl there is students walking in the background which represents that they are in school and they are going to their lesson and not causing any problems. By the teacher walking through the middle of them it grabs tension because it shows that they there is someone else there to resolve the problem and believes that there is no point of having two teachers resolving this problem. The teacher’s facial expression shows that she is fed up of these sort of problems that have been happening and that they need to have more control.

Leo in this scene believes to be scared of Justin as he knows what Justin is capable of if he doesn’t get on his bad side and he just wants to resolve this for Justin so that he leaves Leo alone. Leo knows what Justin is capable of because there has been previous scenes where Justin has miss behaved and caused dramas meaning that Leo doesn’t want to be one of the boys that makes Justin go mad, so by Leo facial expression he show that he is scared and is afraid that if he doesn’t figure out the information for him that something will happen to him, so he wants to discover the address to give to Justin so that he is left alone and not be afraid when he is in school. Leo also feels bad for Floyd because Justin has made Floyd lose his sister and that they aren’t able to see his sister.  Even though Floyd doesn’t show that he is annoyed it shows in his facial expression. Justin’s facial expression show that he is determent to find where she is because he doesn’t like being far away from here.

The reason why my group chose to do this scene was because we believed that this scene was the most effective because the scene was based in a school meaning that it would make our performance more effective by making our scene in the school. Also many schools have children that have been bullied meaning by re-making this scene it would make the scene more effective and show the audience that bullying someone to find out information is not a good thing as it can cause many more problems. Furthermore, I thought that by the scene having a range of camera angles and movement it would show that we were able to show people that we know a range of angle positions and make it more interesting by including different angle positions and you would be able to see the facial expression of the characters. It was an interesting task to complete because it showed us a bit about filming the scenes and the different camera angles.