This document discusses the genre of social realism in film. Social realism aims to portray a realistic depiction of society, often showing the struggles of working class citizens and social/economic hardship. It commonly hybridizes with genres like crime, comedy and drama. The document outlines reasons for choosing this genre, like low budgets and locations, and typical conventions like gritty styles and urban settings. It describes the filmmaker's plan to establish the social realism genre within the first two minutes through an urban street montage and dialogue scene.

1. Social Realism
This PowerPoint will explain what
this is and my decisions to making it
the chosen genre to my film opening.

2. What is social realism?
Social realism, also known as socio-realism
is a film genre, which portrays a realistic
portrayal of British society.
It’s the most ‘typically British’ of all film
genres, showing us to ourselves better than
any other genre.
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3. Social realism depicts social and racial
injustice, economics hardship and other real
life struggles of citizens: often making
working class activities seem heroic.
Social realism often hybrids with crime,
comedy, drama and thriller genres and
resemble that of a documentary.
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4. Examples
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5. Reasons
I have various reasons behind choosing
socio realism as my genre:
• No budget required
• Not many actors necessary
• Locations based in the genres most typical
area of choice when filming a movie.
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6. Conventions
• Realistic settings • Economic hardship
• Realistic events and • Life’s struggles
situations • Gritty style
• Believable filming • Urban locations
techniques
• Hard luck
• Working class heroes
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7. Plans
Now that I have a new genre, I’m planning
on making it as obvious as possible that its
social realism in the first two minutes.
I’m going to be setting scene as urban, with
a montage clip of me walking through
streets in the first minute, then introduce
dialogue with another character in the next.
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