History Of Social Realism Films

1950's

Social Realist Conventions: It was based on everyday life in the 1950's but times have changed because this it not a normal gritty social realist film.In that time it was not acceptable to show violence or controversial views.

How it appeals to the British audience:This appeals to a British audience that are of  the older generation. This mainly wont appeal to British audience of today because society has changed and they wont be able to relate to this film.

1960's

Social Realist Conventions: This film shows us school life and and how many kids would try and skive the lessons. This also has a comedy essence because of how comical the teacher is.This is conveyed by him being very biast and over the top in how he treats his game of football.

How it appeals to the British audience: This would appeal to a British audience who enjoy football.

1970's

Social Realist Conventions:This explores the social realism of love and sex between couples.

How it appeals to the British audience: This appeals to a British audience because it has realism of how a Young couple would live.

1980's

Social Realist Conventions: This shows strong violence, it is set in a youth hostile which indicates life in a young offenders institution and how they are treated and the hierarchy within the institution.

How it appeals to the British audience: This appeals to a British because it contains strong violence and harsh reality of a youth offenders institution.

1990's



Social Realist Conventions: This film is very gritty, and shows a strong theme of domestic violence which is now common among the society, which has enabled them to use this theme because social realism film likes to tackle problems of the time.

How it appeals to the British audience: This would target a niche audience due to the audience may find the film disturbing

Themes of Social Realism

Themes:

Social Class
Shows the working class lifestyle, it explores the situations of how working class live and there poverty. An example of this is Fish Tank, were its based around ruth estate where the unemplayment is rieth and the main characters mum is a single parent.


Violence

This theme explores the ways in which violence can be distributed such as domestic violence, child abuse  gang culre and violent vocabulary. An example of this is scum, where a youth is put in a young offenders unit, whre  uses violence ad fear to become powerfull in the unit.  

Sexuality
Sexuality within a social realist is based on types of sexuality and how there discover sex and there sexuality. An example of this is M beautiful laundrette, he discovers he is gay and facing the problems form his family and the abuse he will be given.



Gender Roles & Relationship
This theme involves Broken relationships in a family between the husband and wife, it also includes betrayal between a couple. And also the steeoypial roles of a cirtain gender, eg a women would be a house wife and the male would bring in the income.
An example of relationship in a british social realism is the film Nil By Mouth it explores the problem of a broken marriege. Where a envyous husband commits domestic violence towards his wife.



Addition
This theme explores the addiction main addictions such as drug,drinking,violence and smocking . An example of a film that explores addiction is trianspotting, it does this by showing the daily life of a drugy and how they live to take drugs. To match the drug taking, the effects in the film are very surreal.

British Politics
This theme mny used to show the views of people that are agianst the goverment. The theme also explares how the goverment impacts on social classes, the main one being working class.
An example of this is the film Hunger were a man has views which are agianst the goverment and goes on a hunger strike in the prison.

Immagration
This theme has a mix of other themes, such has tackling the difficaulties of fitting into society. Coping with racism is also involves in this film. It also involves aspiration to towards the main character when they try and achieve something in life and over coming the probelms they may face.  example for the theme is the film Bigga Than Ben which is about to immagrants trying to fraud the most out of the brittish money system.

Growing up and Aspiration
This theme is when a character trysand escapes a situation which  yoyu have grown up in, they want to achieve the best they can and be better than there generartion.
An example of this is Billy Elliot how he grows up to achieve his talent, and his dream in dancing in the royal Royal ballay.

Race, Ethnicity & Cultural Tensions
This theme is basically cultural tensions in a family and clash of culturs, examples of this is Snatch and east is east. When themes clash of different cultures such as
- pikeys
-jamacans
-cockney's
-Russians -American

Evaluating past student's work.

Candidate 1

Planning and Research

Strenghs

- Well documented

-Good use of examples

-Fairly decent amount of detail

Weaknesses

-Needs to include more detail in certain areas

-Needs more explanation

I would have given him a 13 out of 20 for his planning and research.

Construction

Strenghs

-Good story line

-Good use of location

-Good sound effects

Weaknesses

-To much typography

-Better quality of editing

I would mark him some where in the region of mid 30's out of 60 for his construction.

Evaluation

Strenghs

-Terminology

-Understanding of the task

-Well presented

-Good evaluations on his annotations

Weaknesses

-More detail

-More explaining in how he could have developed his production.

I would give him 14 out of 20 for his evaluation.

Candidate 2

Planning and Research

Strenghs

-Good detail

-Good explanation

-Good use of research

-Developed examples

I would would give 20 out of 20 for his planning and research.

Construction

Strenghs

-Good use of variety of shots

-Good sound effects

-Good use of locations

-Editing

-Typography

I would give 60 out of 60 for his contruction

Evaluation

Strenghs

-Good terminology

-Good examples

-Explanation

-Acknowledgement of his mistakes

Weaknesses

-More detail in his written work.

i would give 19 out of 20 for his evaluation.

"Most of us ask for advice when we know the answer but we want a different one."

Fish Tank

Themes in fish tank conform with the realism of a working class life, the themes are stereotypical given to the working class such as being a single mother as we can tell because we see that the children have no dad.The mother is also not much older than the daughter which is common in situations of living in a rougth estate. Other themes are under age drinking an example of this is when the main character takes cider up to an empty apartment and drinks it, this also conforms because living in such a area there is no parental control and no rules on behalf of the teens. Another theme that conforms with social realism is the unemployment in the area we see this by the adults not working in different cut scenes of the area, this is due to them being lazy and uneducated.

Representation that are shown in the film are very stereotypical of Dagenham such as the mother who wears a slutty outfit an example of this when she walks out of the apartment and we see the mother in a short skirt and high heels which is stereotypical to Essex women.Another stereotypical trait is the fact that young little girls smoke and drink, which carrys on of the theme of the children don't have parental control. The pikies in the film are very stereotypically represented, in the film they live in caravans and dress very poorly with a raging pit bull. Chav's are also represented with the stereotypical in what they wear such as joggers, tank tops, and have there hair in a pony tale.

Mise en scene of the film conforms with the realism of how the working class live, they have done this by:

   - Air Max Trainers

   - Tracksuit

   - Earrings (hooped)

   - Heavy Make up

   - High heels

   - Short skirt

           -this is very stereotypical but it is what most people from a council estate wear.

The setting has to be very very realistic, in this film they use a real estate and apartment, when it is filmed like this it gives the film an affect like its filmed from the "kitchen sink."

Music & Sound effects

-Garage

-reggae

-RnB

-Allot of this music is from black culture, but most white young teens listen to that certain music.

Camera & editing

-Shot like your right with the character the whole way through way through the film, seems more realistic.

-Shows a close up of her putting her hand on his shoulders indicating that she is beginning to trust him.

-We see shots of her dancing escaping the world she lives in. They indicate that the estate she lives in is very dangerous by showing us a close up of a nailed wall.

-When she dances for him, the sun rises, she is dancing in the dark while the light is over his eyes enthersising  that he is fixated on her.

-When the main girl visit es the private estate we see a shot of both of the main girl and a women who is from the area and looks down on the teen, there was also a contrast of what they wore.

-There is also a contrast between fridges, hers was empty but his was full of food.

Dialogue

-Swearing

     -bad language

     -eg "Cunt"

-Accents

     -cockney

     -Irish

Everyone swears now days, in Hollywood's films this is normally sugar coated, but in such a gritty lifestyle its in everyday vocabulary.