Social realism. random reasearch and ideas!!

When looking through an extract from critic 'Rona Murray' about social realism i came to realize how our trailer features very similar ideologies to 'Social realism'. This was first introduced by Ken Loach (1960's) social realism relies on low buget gritty techniques, for example low lighting and hand held camera action.



'This is England' shows an example of new social realism, as it uses urban, gritty camera shots and narrative. This has been used in our trailer as we have tried to use very naturalistic camera shots; which are used by a hand held camera. Additionally another trait of social realism is little non digetic sound, we have kept all the same audio used throughout the filming but added a soundtrack to create a more eerie feel.

John Grieson describes documentarys as 'the creative treatment of actuality', i also think our film has a documentary feel with the use of hand held camera and the nature of the narrative, throughout a film we would be shown how and why the killer damon is how he is, we later discover it is due to the abuse by his father. In turn, allowing the audience to divert from the own lives or relate to the problems shown.

Social realism aspects we have followed.

-Enigma narrative.
-Trapes of thriller to keep the audience guessing.
-blends social realist with british gangsta thriller!