2. What is social Realism?
Social Realism is a genre that is based
on a realistic level, seeing working
day hero. Social realism can convey
people's situation and events that
have taken place in the 21st century,
translating people's emotional
feelings towards certain issues and
events. Britain is taking on a major
role in Social Realism changing the
cinema, realism seen as a gift to the
cinema. This has created a long
standing rivalry with Hollywood,
calling the film making tinsel far
fetched and fake.
3. Technical codes.
Technical codes used on a social
realism are natural realistic lighting
and hand held camera shots. This
is very important in making a
realism film and is it makes it
realistic and a documentary
experience. In such films as “fish
tank” realism tends to show people
from a less fortunate background
this is portrayed in visual codes like
mise en scene and location of the
characters environment. The codes
and conventions typically used are
issues that talk about drug abuse
or street crime. Reflecting social
issues that affect a wide range of
people. These films are shot on a
low budget mostly filmed hand held
giving no space for technical
effects.
4. Micro features.
Micro features being the smaller details, macro being the bigger
features that help shape the film. Technical codes used on a social
realism film that are micro consist of natural realistic lighting, it can
shape the mood example on my dark scenes the lack of light
insinuate something bad is going to happen. Mise en scene is a
visual micro feature, which helps represent social class. Characters
wear clothing that young teenagers may wear can relate to, the
clothing may help understand characters background. Main character
in Fish tank for instance is wearing dark colours reflecting and sad or
angry mood.
5. This is a good scene in “fish tank” to show
the effect of camera position, body
language and facial expressions. The
camera position is a medium shot, this
is a good shot to see clearly what the
girls expression is and movement
giving more detail to the scene. The
man is leaning into her but the body
language appear strained, her posture
appears uncomfortable It appears he
wants the closeness however she is
being very dismissive, which could
portray a very distant relationship.
Maybe she is weary of him and feels http://www.youtube.com/watch?
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untrustworthy one. The facial
expressions also contrast to one
another, he appears to be smiling
giving making him appear friendly. Like
the young girls body language her
facial expression seems angry and
distant giving the impression she is
very unfriendly cold character.
6. For most social realism films the
location is set in familiar places to
the average person who tends to
be from a lower class background.
This opens up people's minds that
come from less fortunate
background, making the character
have normality and easy to relate
to. In the British Realism film
“Bullet Boy” the location appears
very dull, the colours make the
place seem lifeless portrayed on
characters faces.
7. There are different ranges of sound that are used in
film, it is important to have sound as it can introduce a
scene or props. Two different types of sounds non-
diegetic sounds which consist over the dialogue. Social
realism use familiar sounds in “Bullet Boy” a car
speeding sounds that can be recognised, showing
trouble or chaos in the characters lives. If shots are
outside it is sounds of a nature environment, hearing
birds for example gives a more calmer feeling. Diagetic
is dialogue, accent helps understand the characters
background also determine social class. “Fish Tank”
they speak with an Essex accent, the use of slang
could insinuate they come from a rough side of Essex.
