During Etra et avoir for the outside shots a long shot dominates, but for the inside shots mid shots and close ups dominate. In the outside shots there is alot of long cuts of the surrounding area. There are a couple of establishing shots made of the school and the area around it. In the school there are alot of shots of the teacher talking to the students, close ups of the students faces as they talk to the teacher. In the first part of the film we are introduced mostly to the teacher and JoJo. The main focus is on JoJo because he has a very short attention span and he doesn't always focus on his work as much as he should. He also has a close relationship with the teacher so focusing on JoJo and the teacher more than any of the other students would show this relationship.  For the sound track the music is only played when they camera is focusing on the outside world, but when it is in the classroom there is no music as there is people talking.

In Etra et avoir all the shots are very long. Compared to other films we have watched, it has the smallest amount of shots in it. In Dog Town and the Z-Boys there are a lot more shots in it and they are shorter shots. With some parts of this film there are still images and when the sound track is being played the pictures flick to the beat of the music. Some of the shots flick through interviews and don't last long at all, where as in etra et avoir there aren't any interviews just watching the teacher talking to his pupils. The form of this film shows that the community is closely knitted together and quite poor. However in Dog Town and the Z-Boys even though it is also a closely knitted together community, it has a different atmosphere to it than in etra et avoir. In Dog Town and the Z-Boys the people (surfers) are not calm chilled out people so therefore the form of the film making is not going to be as calm as etra et avoir. They would both have different audiences, because if you were to get the audience for dog town and the z-boys and make them watch etra et avoir they will find it borig as they will be used to watching more up beat films with alot of music in it n alot more excitement.