2. Genre
Social realism is a genre of film that focuses
on topical issues alive in modern society, which is
represented by different ideologies.
These themes can include
money, drugs, shootings and sex; these
are the most common themes in modern
contemporary social realism.
These are very popular today but not all were
involved in the early social realism storylines and
films.
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3. Rationale for choice - We have decided to do a
social realism trailer we have chosen this genre, as
we believe it relates to our age range, which means
we have a personal connection to it.
Our audience would be 15-30+ years old as it would
relate to this audience better than others. Our film
will be very relevant to our audience as the story line
should speak to them.
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4. Initial Idea
Our initial idea is there is going to be a party, that
everyone wants to go to, everyone gets drunk, gets
high and everyone is having a good time until the
main character is hit by a car that one of his is
mates was driving drunk and high, when he goes for
a walk to talk to his pregnant girlfriend. He gets
pronounced dead at the scene of the accident and
his mate is sentenced to 15 years imprisionment.
Through out the film shows the life without the two
male characters as their girlfriends live
without them.
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5. Codes and Conventions to follow.
Location- In a real life location rather than a
Hollywood studio.
We have chosen to film in
Woodford Halse, as there
are a few woods where we
wish to film.
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6. Stock Characters
We will use the stereotype for the age group
we are targeting at; being 15-30 years old.
This will be shown through the costume of
the characters.
We will use a group of teenagers around 15-
19 years old.
The stereotype is
tracksuits, trainers, smoking and drinking, so
we will follow this stereotype to fit in with our
genre.
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7. Stock Character
and Costume
Tracksuit
bottoms – used
to show the way
we stereotype
male and
female
teenagers.
Hooded tops-
again to show
the
stereotypes
given to
teenagers.
Vicky Pollard – From
Little Britain to mock the
way we stereotype
teenagers in this
generation.
Whitney Dean -
Shows a realistic
characterization
of a teenage
chav.
This image
shows a
‘gang’ of
teenagers
showing
there
authority.
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8. Actors
Social realism films use non-professional
actors or unknown actors as it adds to the realistic
look.
They also use this because they would be a small
independent company.
Which means they wouldn’t have the money or
budget to be able to have big well-known
Hollywood actors.
Oliva Colman shown in the top right hand
corner is a well known independent actor.
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9. Shots
Wide shots: They use these to get a good
understanding of what is going on or even
where the setting is.
Close ups: To help the audience understand
the characters emotions to familiarise and
follow them in their journey.
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10. Shots
Establishing shot: Predominately set in
‘gritty’ council estates, urban cities.
Panning shots: Are used to follow again the
protagonist’s journey.
Mid-shots: These are used to connect the
audience to the characters- the viewers are
only shown part of the object but feel as if
they are looking at the whole subject.
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12. Scripts, Themes, Humour and
Seriousness
Semi improvised scripts – These are used
to create a realistic dialogue to achieve the
genre.
Humor and seriousness – Social realism
show the everyday issues that people go
through every day this shows the
seriousness and they try to incorporate
humor in the film.
Themes – Alcohol, Sex and Drugs.
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13. Sound
Urban music usually such as ‘RnB’ and ‘hip hop’ is
used to go with the Mise-en-scene of the ‘gritty’
council estates creates a sense of fear to the
audience and relate well to gang culture, which is
typical theme used in many British Social Realism
films.
Dialogue: is also used in this genre with a very
‘chatty’ tone. To add, swearing is a genetic
convention of this genre and is used widely in many
films.
But we will make our own ‘hip-hop’ ‘rap’ beat that we
can use.
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