In order to get my point across on how my project used and challenged typical conventions and themes in the social realism film idea, I decided to create a video to explain some big examples of how we used them.
Another note I would like to add is how we used people and directors as influence. We didn't directly copy anyone from the industry, as we felt this really limited our creativity and didn't allow us to challenge the ideas enough for our film. We wanted to create a piece that was no where near as dramatically led as most other social realism films. By this we mean that from our analysis's of already existing social realism based films, the stories and characters were still very dramatic in our eyes, involving themes like drugs, knife crime and gang culture. Although this IS seen in our reality, it's not exactly a prominent part of it and problems tend to be and end up being dealt with a lot less dramatically as these social realism films did.
Our topic in our film revolved around running away from home due to an abusive, neglected broken family lifestyle which is considered normal for a social realism genre based film. We made sure to constantly think of how Ken Loach would approach this issue throughout our production as he has a lot of experience in films with this topic. However, we approached the results and solutions to this problem a lot differently. Most social realism films would have presented the main character running away and getting involved with horrible situation such as muggings, fights, drugs and other anti-social behaviours, to express their emotions and frustration during their point of crisis. We, however, felt this to be far too dramatic, considering the fact that in reality, teenagers who run away, in a middle/working-class lifestyle, usually returns, quite quickly too, due to the fact they realise they cannot handle being homeless or miss their family, 'dealing with the cards they were dealt'.
I feel we created a much more realistic theme in the theme by doing this rather than going down the dramatic route.
Another note I would like to add is how we used people and directors as influence. We didn't directly copy anyone from the industry, as we felt this really limited our creativity and didn't allow us to challenge the ideas enough for our film. We wanted to create a piece that was no where near as dramatically led as most other social realism films. By this we mean that from our analysis's of already existing social realism based films, the stories and characters were still very dramatic in our eyes, involving themes like drugs, knife crime and gang culture. Although this IS seen in our reality, it's not exactly a prominent part of it and problems tend to be and end up being dealt with a lot less dramatically as these social realism films did.
Our topic in our film revolved around running away from home due to an abusive, neglected broken family lifestyle which is considered normal for a social realism genre based film. We made sure to constantly think of how Ken Loach would approach this issue throughout our production as he has a lot of experience in films with this topic. However, we approached the results and solutions to this problem a lot differently. Most social realism films would have presented the main character running away and getting involved with horrible situation such as muggings, fights, drugs and other anti-social behaviours, to express their emotions and frustration during their point of crisis. We, however, felt this to be far too dramatic, considering the fact that in reality, teenagers who run away, in a middle/working-class lifestyle, usually returns, quite quickly too, due to the fact they realise they cannot handle being homeless or miss their family, 'dealing with the cards they were dealt'.
I feel we created a much more realistic theme in the theme by doing this rather than going down the dramatic route.
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