Online Cinema , Tell us which film you chose to watch, and what you thought of it?

Growing Up
Filmmaker: Ronan Kelly
Director of Photography: Tamara Higgs

I chose the film Growing up , firstly because I am particularly interested in documentary style films and social realism films such as This is England (2007,Meadows,UK) and Neds(2011,Mullan,UK). The film presents real social issues like the above films such as the lack of a sufficient father figure leading to a misguided child and youth. Also the techniques used in the film such as the jump cuts at the beginning were effective in presenting Arthurs lack of concentration and hyper activity. The decline in colour saturation as the film progresses is also effective in assisting the films decline in mood form happy to sad.