CCR task powerpoint

1. How does your product
use or challenge
conventions and how
does it represent social
groups or issues?
Elliott Jones

4. SANDCASTLE
• 2017
• Young soldier entering war and unknown.
• Similar experiences to our main character.

5. Land and freedom
• 1995 War/Drama film
• Following a UK communist member as he travels to join Spain’s civil war.
• One similarity is the idea of both war and a heartfelt film in one.

6. Secrets and Lies
• 1996 film
• After her adoptive mother dies, she seeks out her real mother.
• Who is a lower-class white woman
• The two begin to bond forming as child and single mother relationship.

7. Editing Conventions Used

12.  Similarities in text
size
 Boldness of text
 Widely spaced apart
text
 Neutral plain
background.

13. Sound Conventions Used

14. What sound did we use?
• The soundtrack that we use for our opening title sequence
was the song The Only Thing by Sufjan Stevens.
• He is most famous for the song Mystery of Love that is used
in the film Call Me By Your Name.

15. Sound conventions

16. Mise en Scene Conventions

17. Baby’s room-
toys, books
and mobiles.

18. Toddler’s
room- army
pictures on
the wall, toy
planes etc.

19. Adult’s room-
plain, key
notes of
army.

20. The UK army uniform consists
of what the two reference
photos show. However as the
boy was leaving for the army,
we thought it wasn’t necessary
for him to wear the whole outfit
and instead took away that hat
and jacket.

21. Lighting

22. Social Groups and Issues

23. Loss of a father

25. Army Families

26. Single Mothers

28. UK Working Class