Our Presentation

By Hannah and Lauren.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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. It will be 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.

Stock Characterand 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.

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.

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. 

Birdseye view: To capture the whole image.

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.

Props

Alcohol cans and bottles Tents Lights Cars Knives

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.

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.