Analysis of movie (genre:drama) 1

An education is a BBC film that represents a teenager in 1960.  

The opening title represent a teenage group in the time of 1960's. This also showed a stereotype of the kind of things girls usually do back in 1960's when the clippings of girls baking and balancing books on their head to improve the postures were taught in the schools which are very unlikely nowadays in high schools. The gender was also represented as there were only girls shown in the opening title.

Camera shots, Angle, Movement, Composition:

The video began with the animations of white lines forming various shapes of graphs, living cells, atoms, and foot prints, skipping ropes and books that represent school life. The opening title were being shown alongside. There hardly have been any still shots and all long, mid shots have some movement in them. panning is done extensively and a third grid rule is also followed when we see closeups of girls learning to cook. The utensils and cutlery items are in the middle of the frame.

Editing:
Great deal of effects are used in this opening title. the beginning is animated and after the opening title appears,  we see the superposition of animations and actual shots in some places throughout the sequence. For example when the camera pans across the girls feet than we see an animated paper plane flying and than falling into dustbin. The animation used are according to the main theme and idea of this opening title. Also between two different sots, a fade in effect is used. eye line match and graphic match can be seen as well. In various places  we also see long takes for example in an insert of a main character of this movie and she is shown walking  alone on the street heading back to school/home.  

Sound

Diegetic sounds of girls giggling and teachers and students chatting, non Diegetic sound of the music. the Kind of the music used was to represent a cheerful surrounding mainly concerning with school life. The volume of the music slowly ends towards the end of the opening sequence. The tempo of the music is consistent throughout this sequence. 

Mise-en-scene

The location used was of a classroom back in 1960. The walls are shown creamy while and the oak funitures used are more like the schools back in 1960. The uniform and postures of the girls in the school are similar to the concept back in 1960. Some activities on the frame e.g  balancing books on their heads for a ladylike posture and cooking classes in school match the whole theme. Most of the shooting has been done indoors in the school and outside i n the playground and the mise en scene is of girls playing and going about their classes during school hours.