This document summarizes and compares three British films - Fish Tank, A Room for Romeo Brass, and Dead Man's Shoes - in terms of their title, length, number of edits, locations shown, use of titles/music/dialogue, characters, and clothing styles portrayed. Fish Tank is set in crowded urban London flats and centers around a girl and her family. A Room for Romeo Brass shows friendship between two boys and an older man in various urban and natural British locations. Dead Man's Shoes features two brothers and a criminal gang amid houses, pubs, and moors to create tension through its use of regional accents and opera music.

1. Title Length Edits Locations Titles Music Voiceo
ver
Dialogue Characters
Fish Tank
Release date:
September 11, 2009
2:00 77 edits Urban locations,
Cities, Flats rather
than houses, very
crowded. Shows
an urban London
area that is a
British social
realism setting.
Title of movie,
nominations
and awards
would come up
Background music
that is urban which
goes well with
where the movie is
set. At the end of
the clip it becomes
faster paced to
show the speed of
the time going by.
None A lot of anger is
used in the
voices of the
characters in
the scene,
shows more
aggression.
Regional
accents.
There was a main
character of the girl
as the film is centred
round this girl.
There is also her
mother and sister
and her mother’s
boyfriend that are
also characters.
A room for Romeo
Brass
Release date: 1999
1:58 67 edits There were many
locations such as:
The Beach, Urban
houses, forest,
park, shops. They
all show an urban
area that is a
British social
realism setting.
21 Locations In
total.
Title of film,
What is going to
happen in the
film, friends
names, 9 titles.
Background,
upbeat non-
diegetic sound that
sets the mood of
the film, but then
also slows down
towards the end.
None Loads of
dialogue
between the
two friends and
the older man.
Regional
accents,
simplistic
words.
Two main characters
who are best friends
who then meet an
older man who then
they become friends
with.
British realism
clothing on all of the
characters.
Dead man’s shoes
Release date: October
1:45 47 edits The location that
was used where
houses pubs, the
moors on the
country side
these are all
typically British
social settings. A
pub is a typically
British setting.
They use only 3
titles but all
show anger and
violence which
creates tension.
One of the
words is
vengeance so
the movie looks
like it will turn
out to a violent
Opera music was
used to create
tension and backs
up the horror/
drama that the film
is about.
None Mostly regional
accents that
would only be In
British films.
Two main characters
are brothers who are
rooming the moors;
there is also a gang
of men who seem to
be the local criminals
in this town.
Clothing shows
casual clothing
nothing fancy which