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In what ways does your media product use, develop or challenge forms and conventions
of real media products?
As a group we looked at similar media products to ours for example we looked at the
film London to Brighton, Bullet Boy, Shank and Goodbye Charlie Bright. These films all
gave us inspiration and gave us the idea of what conventions we needed to include to
create the British Social Realism film we wanted.
The music we used when the film first opens is non-diegetic and carries through until
the narrative, we decided on this type of music because we thought it was grimy and
urban which is what we was trying to portray throughout the film opening. It also links
with the fast pace of the main characters criminal lifestyle as we see his journey. We
used both diegetic sound with the sound of the police cars and the children playing in
some of the clips to create the communal atmosphere of the environment.
We used Film 4 for our institutional logo because Film Four is a channel, which we know,
would show a Social Realism film and also from my research film four are known to back
and finance a lot of British independent films.
The settings/locations played a big role in creating the Social Realism film because they
are a key convention. From our research we found that the locations used are places like
council estates, blocks, streets, and parks because it makes the film seem more real for
the audience so they can relate a lot more.
Another convention of British Social Realism is their range of shot types which helps the
audience establish the location, for example after the ‘Road Runner’ title we show a
panning establishing shot showing the audience the area which gives them an idea of
where the film is set.
From my research I learnt that Social Realism Films tend to deal with modern day issues
such as money, drugs, crime, sex, prostitution, alcoholism, class and religion. The
storyline that we chose is about a young drug dealer who gets himself into trouble when
the money he made for his boss gets stolen. This reflects social issues that affect many
people so it helps the audience relate to it as its something that goes on a lot in modern
day society.
Another convention is the naturalistic lighting that was used in every social realism film
my group and I looked at. It again helps force that realistic reality feel that the films
convey. We used natural lighting through out our film except the scene where our
character is in the bin shed room as there is an automatic light in there.