EDITED: PEAKY BLINDERS

'How does the director of Peaky Blinders use camera angles and mise en scene to establish expectation and character'

The use of a low angle shot in this instance highlights the ideas of authority and power which allows the characters to look as though they're in control. This links with there being a large group of people in the shot. This shot is also filled with their faces and not much else surrounding them in terms of the background and the features or buildings surrounding them. This again highlights power, authority and an overwhelming sense of control. The costumes of the characters are all of the same colour and style. They are all wearing darkly coloured suits which connotates darkness and the idea of danger. The fact that they're all wearing similar clothing signifies gang culture in the idea that they have all come together and are wearing the clothes that make them look more powerful and make them look as though they are of one body.

In this image, there is a wide shot where many of the men seen in the first still are walking through a once calm puddle. The idea of them walking through this, once seeminly calm, puddle gives the idea that they are disturbing what was once calm. This gives the idea that these men are essentially disturbing what was once calm which connotates danger and almost agressive behaviour. The boots the men are wearing are also very uniform. They are seemingly smart and hard wearing boots which imply that these men are wearing these boots for something that they would not wear everyday shoes to connotating a sense of mystery and danger. The style of the boot has an overall agressive look which again links to the idea of danger and mystery linking back to their costumes on a whole and gives the idea of power and unison.
 
In this image, only the reflection of the men can be seen. This gives the scene a more illusive feel and connotate ideas of darkness and mystery in that all that can be seen is dark silhouettes and part of their surroundings. Again, the dark costumes, which make this scene more mysterious and illusive, are a huge part of the conotations that come with thesepictures, which again, highlight mystery and danger. This type of shot is creative and helps to make the idea of mystery and power more prominant. The dark clothes with the dark surroundings entice the reader into finding out more about the characters, their surroundings and why the director has shot these frames in tne way they have been.

What can we learn about how to shoot characters walking from this scene in Peaky Blinders?  
Peaky blinders shows a really good way of filming chracters walking.

It shows that it’s important, when filming a scene like this, to make sure the editing is continuous. Continuity editing is really important in scenes like this as it makes the scene, in a way, more convincing for the viewer. It also makes it much more effective in that if the editing is continuous, the footage looks more realistic and allows for more judgements of the characters to be made and allows the reader to try and get a sense of what’s going on in the situation and again work out what sort of people these characters are all by them walking.

It also shows us that it is hugely important to have enough shots filmed and to use a variety of camera angles. Angles are hugely important when filming a scene like this as they allow the characters to show their authority, through shots like low angle shots, making them look like the bigger character. This is the same with having enough shots. If you don’t film enough shots you editing can forfeit. Not having enough shots allows for a lack in continuity and can make the final cut less believable and it may become jumpy and unlinked.