NOWHERE BOY: TEXTUAL ANALYSIS

In class we briefly watched Nowhere Boy in preparation for our exam analysis.

In the film, Nowhere Boy the opening scene shows a teenage boy who goes by the name of John Lennon, he is running past a historic building in joy and self-confidence. The initial shot at the beginning of the film is called an establishing shot which is used to allow the audience to get the full understand of the surrounding. The shot is brings a daunting effect and shows this huge historic building which belittles John. However, the tracking shot after presents the attitude John has towards being intimidated by this building which show's that he isn't phased by this and in desperation is running joyfully.

Suddenly, there is a cut scene where John is pictured curled up in bed whilst his aunt, 'Mimi' is attempting to wake him up abruptly by nudging him whilst yelling at him requesting he gets himself ready for school immediately. This scene allows the audience to soon establish there is a clear difference in personalities between John Lennon and his aunt Mimi. Whereas, John and his uncle are quite the opposite, whilst eating breakfast they are seen sharing banter and the uncle gifts John with a harmonica which to me indicates love and appreciation.

Nonetheless, we see a variety of different types of camera angles in the movie; these include: tracking shot, establishing shot, shot reverse shot, two person shot and also over the shoulder shot. These allow the movie to greatly progress and achieve a more professional outcome. The types of shots previously listed also present the casts emotions better and more efficiently, for example, there is a scene when Aunt Mimi confirms the death of the uncle and due to suddenly feeling of unprotected and lonely he hugged Aunt Mimi from behind, the camera angle during this shot show's the two people and also the contrast in emotion.