Exam

The Scene is set in the country side near a lake, when thinking of a country house the first thought is of old people as they want to live somewhere where it is moderately silent; which is why you would come to the conclusion that grownups live there. In the first few seconds of the clips we were introduced to Amy who more or less skips out of the house/cottage connotations of skipping are of kids in a play ground having fun playing games; the first sign that Amy is younger than she says she is. Amy is wearing a bright yellow top which is a very young colour including the reason that her top has a big pattern on the top makes the person question if the Amy girl is younger than she is or just an adult attempting to look younger. The baggy jeans does no favours for Amy as female adults tend to wear trousers and if on the off chance they wear jeans they would be moderately skinny jeans to show off their figure. We see the male lead hiding a shovel which is a prop to cannotate that he’s a hard working man. The lead male wears clothes suitable for his work…. He wears a dark blue outdoor jacket a white T-shirt under a green checkered top, the checkered top conveys he works in a farm as checkered tops more or less have been stereotyped as farm wear, conveying that the man is dedicated to his job and is at the age to have a job. When Amy goes into the car we have a close up shot so we were able to see her facial expressions clearly as she tries to figure out how to start the car. As Amy struggles to turn on the car engine we start to notice that she may be younger than 17 … an age where you would not have taken driving lessons or done a driving test. In the background you hear the car skid and crash; moments later a new character is introduced. She has grey hair and wears a dull blue cardigan with a tie, white smart buttoned up shirt and a swampy green blazer. The colours he wears you can see he is not young not forgetting that he also has grey hair. By the clothes he wears you can see he is posh then you see later as he speaks; he has a posh English accent. The old man is someone who works at the school Amy goes to and has come to collect her, by the we realize Amy is a runaway student. Back in the house/cottage the main character takes out an antique glass liquid holder (?) where whisky, brandy is placed and serves the old man some brandy/whisky. Connotations of a whisky/brandy/liquid holder (?) is that wealthy people own them in their studies , making us realize the male lead role is into some money and it would have taken him some time to raise that amount of money, meaning the man might be in his late 30’s mid 40’s. When the male lead role walks out to tell Amy she needs to leave and go back to school we see him take a father figure role similarly Amy takes the daughter role as she starts to have tantrum, shouts “I hate you”; storms off into the after room illustrating how naïve she is to have left school and not alone any of her exams including how childish she is. Amy leaves two notes on her bed, the handwriting of the people’s names is swirly and written in pink, silver and purple bubble writing with a small heart to the side reminding us yet again of how old she is … 16. Amy left a teddy bear for one of the people conveying how even for he age she’s still childish and young as most teens don’t carry around their teddys where ever they go … some teens don’t have /don’t need a teddy. The woman who finds a note is wearing a farmer’s hat, this prop reminds us that the video is shot in the country side. A full screen shot is shown of the woods and a rainbow alongside some country music/farm music being played in the scene has connotations of happiness.