A level film

What are the conventions of social realism The conventions of social realism is a film genre that focuses on enlightening the audience to what is going on in the real world, for this reason the conventions are. - location -  non professional actors - social class - age of characters - locations are normally real life locations rather than studios in order to make it fell more realistic, causing the audience to relate more to the characters and there situations, gritty locations - typically British social realism films use non professional actors makes it seem more realistic and allows them to keep into there usually small budgets -  social class= these films are usually set in the working class places - age of characters is important due to the reliability What kind of political ideologies are associated with this style of film making the main political ideologies with this idea f film making is the concept of the rich becoming richer and the poor staying poor.

Research for Trainspotting What was the poll tax? The poll tax was a system of taxation, that meant that how much wealth someone was making didn't effect how much they had to pay, this led to poorer people having to pay as much as the higher classes. Why was it introduced in Scotland first? The poll tax was introduced early in Scotland due to the Scottish Secretary at the time fought for the operation be put in Scotland, as he decided it would be an ideal place to test. And Scottish people didn't vote for her herself. Why was the thatcher government so unpopular? This was due to them introducing these change it got rid of workers from mines and other jobs. people began protesting and

Film analysis of Prisoners. This extract of prisoners sets the tone for the rest of the film effectively as a thriller through use of extremely well thought out camera, mise-en- scene, lighting and sound. At the beginning when we as an audience are shown a medium shot of a back lighten car, with the noise of diegetic rain over the top of it we become curios about why it is there and who it belongs to. The backlight in this shot, is coming from inside a diner, which has a colour palate of mainly yellows and whites, with extremely artificial bright lights. This shows extreme contrast between that and outside the dinner, which is mainly dark and hard to figure out what is there, causing everything to be in silhouette.   The fact that the contrast of the two places is so extreme, makes us believe that the inside of the diner might be safer and calmer than the outside. When we cut to the next shot, a medium shot of a man eating inside the diner, the audience feels a sense of relief