British film conventions often depict themes of sexism, alcoholism, and violence as realistic aspects of British culture. Some visual conventions include using dull, dark lighting to set the scene in Britain and featuring less known actors due to smaller budgets compared to Hollywood films. The film Green Street exemplifies these conventions by portraying gang violence among British football hooligans set on the streets of Britain with a culturally diverse cast.

1. British Film Conventions
Hannah Knipe

2. Codes and Conventions of British,
Social and Realism
• Sexism
• Alcoholism
• Violence
• Lighting
• Less Know Actors
• Modern V’s Traditional
• Different Cultures
• Location

3. • Sexism- attitudes or behavior based on traditional stereotypes of sexual roles. The
stereotypical thing of a women is to be at home looking after the family and the man should
be out earning enough money to keep the family stable.
• Violence- behavior involving physical force intended to hurt, damage, or kill someone or
something. Violence is used in many films today such a crime, drugs or underage pregnancy
as they happen everyday. Violence is seen in the film green street.
• Alcohol- Alcohol is a drug that is used for enjoyment. Alcohol is drunk and abused nearly
everyday this is also shown in the film green street.
• Lighting- in British film they set the scene with dull dark colours to create a mood, this also
enables the audience to know that they are watching a British film set in Britian.
• British Actors- Any British film will always have less known actors or actresses in their
films this is because they have a smaller budget and would not be able to pay for the famous
Hollywood stars.

4. Green Street – Violence
• Location- Green Streets main scenes are located in a British street.
• Modern V’s Traditional- Today this is very normal and is likely to happen to have big gangs who
are football hooligans were as in the old days this would not be normal.
• Different Cultures- There is a mixture of cultures in the film. This is because today we live
in a multicultural society where as many years back everyone would be white British.