Waterloo Road Analysis

0:00 - 1:20
This clip is from the BBC1 series Waterloo Road. It's a TV drama set at a rough school which is always experiencing big dramas each episode! I chose to analyse this episode because I feel that it shows really good camera shots. The clip begins with a long shot of a woman getting out her car and locking it. She is looking towards something behind the camera with severe intrest. This then turns into a restrictive narrative as the audience cannot share what she is looking at. She then walks closer to the camera. The auience is then able to see what she was looking at, by an over shoulder shot. A quick cut transition moves to the next scen and a establishing shot allows the auidence to clearly see exactly whats happening in the scene before any dialogue is spoken. It's clear that there is a performance about to happen as there is an audience set up infront of a stage. The camera then moves to backstage and school children are seen painting the set. They begin to have a converstaion with eachother and the camera cuts from each pair, back and forth. An edited transition then cuts to the stage again which blurs a circle. A close up of a man scrolling up a dial on a lights panel is shown. Then the camera in moved to the isle of the audience where at the end sits the light panel and a man and a woman sitting behind it. The camera is slowly zooming into them as they are speaking. Now and then cutting back to whats happening on stage. An over shoulder shot is then shown from behind the two people at the lights panel. The audience is then able to see the panel and also the stage ahead of it. At 1:18 tracking is used to follow the boy to enters the next scene. Background music is being played so that the show isn't silent when no dialogue is being said.