This Is England
- Created by: charlotte
- Created on: 02-04-14 12:30
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- This Is England
- Genre
- Social realist
- Social realist conventions in this is england
- Gritty film topic.(swearing on title page)
- Unknown actors
- None of the cast were well known actors. This helps the audience focus on the characters rather than be influenced by a famous actors stereotype
- Under represented groups in society shown within the film
- skin heads
- Mixture of stereotypes and non-stereotypes trying to reflect realism
- Slow moving. to show realism + reflect real life
- often serious films with some comedic elements
- quite harsh with a meaning and a message + a political wing
- The film maker has a specific argument or message to deliver about the social world and employs realist conventions to express the message or argument
- Social realist conventions in this is england
- Very typical of its genre
- Technical codes making it conform to the social realist genre:
- Hand held camera
- low budget
- independent film
- no special effects
- Low key lighting
- rural setting/ gritty
- Script
- Improvised
- Narrative left in a cliffhanger
- slow moving narrative
- always told in a linear way with events unfolding around the central characters rather than several narratives and sub plots
- Technical codes making it conform to the social realist genre:
- Shane Meadows leading light in social realist films.
- Social realist
- The social realism genre was born in the 1960s in an era called the british new wave. Films that emerged- Taste of honey- Look back in Anger
- Social Realism is often regarded as Britain's richest gift to world cinema
- the texts often subvert the traditional heroic idea of britishness depicted in war films bond films etc
- Genre
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