Wasp, the short film by Andrea Arnold lasts around 5 minutes long. I have chosen to analyse this film to give me an understanding of the conventions taking place within the film and the typical features the appear in representation to mise-en-scene, cinematography, edit and sound. 
From the first few seconds of the film the shot shows a set of dirty stairs with children and a woman walking down in their bare-feet. The woman is still in her nightdress and doesn't seem to care much for the children's orb her own appearance. Carrying the baby carelessly with only a vest on and the three children wearing dirty and washed out old clothes suggests they are from a lower class background and are poor. At the beginning of the film the mother starts a fight with another woman, this would suggest she doesn't really care and isn't exactly a great role model allowing her children to watch in the street. in comparison to other children, the main characters daughters are definetly represented as worse off. 
Throughout the film we don't ever see the children's father and the main character never hears from him, it is clearly the single mam is struggling with the upbringing of her children and cannot afford to pay for the basic essentials. When the children complain to be hungry the mother substitutes a meal for a bag of sugar, this reveals a greater understanding of the mothers financial struggles showing she cannot even afford a basic meal for her family. In the house all the benches are covered in empty bottles or wrappers which haven't been put in the bin, this again shows the mother in a negative view being too lazy to tidy up her own house and instead living in a mess. 
As the mother couldn't get a babysitter she chose to take her children to the pub with her, this isn't exactly an ideal place for a baby. The mother abandons her children outside the pub to go meet a boy. This suggests she isn't actually fit to be a mother and doesn't  have her priorities right. When going to the pub she is dressed in an extremely short skirt and a red top, the clothing she has chosen is quite revealing and her top has connotations of love due to it being red. 
The short film uses a handheld camera all of the time. Firstly, it is used when they are coming down the stairs almost as if that is how they're moving. The shot starts with a close up on her thighs which lets the audience see she is dressed in her nightwear and  the clothes the children appear to be wearing, this shows they have no shoes on and are walking on a really dirty floor without a care showing its a common experience. Starting at the feet it allows the audience to see the dirty floor and shows the type of place these children are being brought up. The use of the handheld camera shows a sense of realism and could have been used to show the carelessness in the way these people live. The shots when in the house generally seem dull compared to being out in the day light, this could have been used to represent their lifestyle, emotions and feelings of the characters. 
In the short film Wasp there is a lot of colloquial language used, this reflects the type of people she wants the audience to see them as. They are presented as very common and rough. The mother has a very strong accent and swears throughout the whole of the film. We also see the children repeating the foul language again representing the mother as a bad role model. The language used give a good representative of the bad upbringing the children have experienced. 
Due to the film having a very realistic situation as its focus the edits are kept very simple with just using basic cuts. The subject matter is very serious and therefore keeping the edits simple reflects the everyday life the children are growing up in, however the difficult life the children are experiencing contrasts with the very simple but effective editing of the film.