The Street is a British television drama series created by Jimmy McGovern and produced by Granada Television for the BBC The Street won both the British Academy Television Award for Best Drama Series and RTS Television Award for Drama Series twice, in 2007 and 2008. The programme is shown in the even about 6:15pm and finishes at 7:00pm.The series follows the lives of a mixture of residents of an unnamed street in Manchester.
At the start of the single camera drama you encounter a opening mid shot of a mother and father shouting and cursing at each other in front of their children when they are having breakfast, you cant really understand what they are arguing about but then you hear and see a over shoulder shot of the father shout “ it’s bloody £250 “ and then slams the door and goes to work.
The shot turns into a fast pan as he storms out of the house with a close up handle shot, the mother went to her daughter and gave her a hug to reassure her it’s okay and they went off to school. The scene then cuts into a low mid shot of the mother in the kitchen and hears a hiss and walks to the sink, this shot is hand held because you can see the affect it has and then the tap explodes and water is spraying everywhere and the kitchen becomes a puddle of water but the mother runs out the house and calls over a neighbour for assistance and he fixes it and they look at each other in a sexual way and start kissing…..
The next day there is a long angle shot of father is sitting down in the front room watching football and a focus pull of his daughter eating breakfast and then focuses back on the father before he leaves for work, as he is doing that the shot changes to a wide shot of his neighbour who had the affair with his wife opens his car door and puts his briefcase in the back car and there’s a tracking shot of him walking to the drivers seat and then forgets his paper work and rushes back into his house and there are a lot of quick shots of everyone in the house arguing and you can really see the tension he is feeling and eventually finds them.
There is a mid shot of him walking out of house and another two close ups of him breathing and a extreme close up of him clenching his car keys, He then drives out of his parking space with a tracking shot of him looking at his neighbour as drives past him and there’s a shot of the neighbour looking at him but through a window and out of know where there is a mid-shot of a child who runs in front the car having a close up shot of the full impact of the car hitting her. He slams the breaks on and there is a shot of the neighbour that has seen what has happened and then passes out in the middle of the street in shock but as the girl gets hit there is a mid-shot of the father watching a football team and as she gets hit his football team scores and then there is another shot of the father looking a the window because he thought he herd something outside, the scene keep cutting in-between the driver taking deep breaths as he’s just his hit daughter and a shot of the father looking out the window curiously not knowing its his beloved daughter.
About 8 seconds after the accident has happened most of the neighbours rush out and there is a low mid-shot of some people falling to there needs in tears and there’s tracking / pan shot of someone rushing to get the daughters mother not knowing the person who she is having an affair with has accidently ran her daughter over and once she comes out the camera shots work very well because you can see the connection between the mother and the driver because they have been secretly having an affair but as everyone runs over the driver is in such shock he doesn’t move from his seat, the ambulance gets called and arrives in minutes and then the father rushes out thinking what has happened but then walks closer and looks a his distraught wife who is in front of the car trying to nurse her daughter. The father then runs to the drivers window shouting “Open the fucking door look what you have done fucking get out that’s my daughter!!!”
The Ambulance and Police arrives and the mother walks into the house and looks at the TV and runs back out side cursing at the dad because he should have been looking after the kids instead of watching football, as the girl gets put back in the ambulance there is a shot of the driver being breathalysed and he looks at the mother and she looks at him as she walks into the ambulance trying to nurse her daughter and then the scene finishes with a zoom out shot.
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