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Class notes Genre: -setting -themes -icons (significant object) -narrative -characters -textual analysis -similarities & differences Beautiful boy The opening scene we watched of 'Beautiful Boy' started off with being set at the beach with a happy atmoshpere. The music was calm and peacful as there was a piano playing. The characters we fist see are what looks like a mum dad and a son. They look happy and are making a video. Meanwhile, there is a voiceover of the boy talking and we gather that this is the little boy in the video talking about himself. The setting changes from the bright, light open beach to a dark grey low key lighting school classroom or office, this is a contrast of past and present. We see the boy looking quite glum as he's reading out what could be a school project. After this the setting changes yet again to a man in an office looking at his computer screen hoplessly and looking quite sad, the music is the same (sad tone) which feels like it is building up something really sad about to happen. the setting changes again from the opening 2 minutes we see a woman in a fairly busy highstreet (the mum) we only see her for a split second but she seems happy and carefree. The final setting we see in the 2 minutes opening is the home or the myum and the dad, the music stop. It feels uncomfortable and the camera is shakey, the atmosphere is dead and it makes you feel suspocious. The skin I live in 'The skin i live in' starts off with a big picture, of a village, and then the frame gets smaller to a house, and then to a sign on the house. The first character we see is a woman in a nude body suit with no sound in a white walled house. We see her trapsing around the house looking like shes doing nothing but really she has set tasks. We see her taking a mixture of tablets and the camera shows a close up of them. The atmoshpere is quite boring and depressing there are no emotions being shown so far. Then the setting changes to a school lecture, and we realise the subject is burns victims. Then it hits that the woman in the body suit may be a burns victim.