After Thomas Notes

Context- After Thomas is a one of drama shown on ITV in December of 2006, it tells a story of a mothers struggle to bring up a disabled child, and also to deal with peoples ignorance of her situation. 


Sound
The sound at the beginning of the TV drama, has been stretched and manipulated this could be to represent the mothers state of mind and how she is feeling and the stress of the situation.There is a contrast between diagetic and non-diagetic sound when the child is crying/screaming in the road and then the soft, calming sound of the violin playing in the background, this produces an enigma code, a sense of mystery. 


Camera Angles
Close ups are used to show the facial expressions of the moth and child,the close ups clearly show the cuts on the mothers face due to her child lashing out, the close ups also helps the audience to see what the mother is feeling. A long shot is used at the beginning of the scene to give the audience some information about the scene such as the time of year, what type of clothing people are wearing and where they are etc. Also, an over the shoulder shot is used whilst they are in the shoe shop We see over the shoulder of the shop assistant and see that the child is still wearing a nappy even though he looks to be about 6/7 and to be kicking and hitting the shop assistant and his mother, this makes the audience instantly blame the mother for the bad behavior of the child, this assumption made by the audience is also emphasized by the mother and daughter standing at the checkout as the mother tells her daughter not to look.   


Camera movement


A pan shot is used when the mother and child are about to enter the shoe shop, this gives the audience a clear view of the setting and where the mother and child are about to enter.


Mise en scene
The white background of the 'this is a true story' text, stands out and also makes the audience truly believe that this is a true story, as the colour white is associated with innocence, angels, light, goodness etc. The red bus has a connotation of danger of the foreshadowing events that are going to happen to her and her child.Both parents are seen to be caring over there child, the mother is very protective over her child and gets very angry at the ignorance of other people. The father struggles to get to work on time but once he is there he is fully dedicated to completing his work, this is shown when the fire alarm goes off and everyone else gets up to leave but he stays sat down trying to get his work done.