Themes
How it is used in British Social Realism: Developments throughout a situation and where the whole film follows on a story of a particular kind.
Example: Bullet Boy - Gangster, crime, drama, fights between gangs and the relationship between these 'gangsters' and the police. Violence because of the guns involved. Teenagers are also being judged. His little brother is aspired to be like him when he's older like a 'criminal' - not a good influence. The boy has nobody and his mother cannot handle his situation.
Representation of Gender
How it is used in British Social Realism: Usual men and women roles - what they spend their time doing. Domination, masculinity, single parents, only sometimes give positive views, not fulfilling roles as parents, encouragements.
Example: The Full Monty - Six unemployed men become strippers to earn money.
Representation of Ethnicity
How it is used in British Social Realism: Racism - actively aggressive, tensions between ethnicites, discrimination, judgemental, struggle living between two different cultures, use of humour to get a point across, sympathetic.
Example: East Is East - Children have a white mother and a Pakistani father. They live in Manchester and the father wants to control their lives by getting them married to Pakistani girls but one of the boys already has a white girlfriend. "Mum! The paki's are here!" - considered offensive.
Representation of Class
How it is used in British Social Realism: Underclass and working class living in council estates, aspired to achieve something and get out of their current situation, mainly see negative views - not much positive, not always showing what life is really like, shows them to be scums but it is not always the case.
Example: Football Factory - A man who is nearly 30 and says his life is boring. He is working class and says "he's no different" to anyone else because he takes drugs, has sex, drinks alcohol, 'lives for the weekends' and does beat up people. This mainly gives a negative view of the working class. He enjoys football.
Mise-en-scene
How it is used in British Social Realism: Natural/dark lighting, grey colours - not bright, council estates, real settings, streets, dirty environment (not perfect), not in studio, casual everyday clothing because anyone can pick it up from a shop, messy houses, hoodies.
Example: Billy Elliot - Natural lighting, industrial estate, broken fence, bushes not cut down in a while, school uniform, others doing actions in the background, boy practices ballet in bedroom and kitchen.
Music & Sound Effects
How it is used in British Social Realism: Ambient sound - birds, police sirens, cars, people shouting, hardly uses non-diegetic music, uses urban music from that area, mainly diegetic music
Example: Made In Britain - Rock/metal/punk music - aggression, crime, troublesome, main character looks like a punk so the music keeps with the character, set in a real court room as someone speaks it is fuzzy and echoes, use real sound affects, very little talking in the background.
Camera Shots & Editing
How it is used in British Social Realism: Handheld, shaky, rough to follow lives of characters and as if we are in the actual scene watching them, mainly documentary, not much editing involved - makes it flow more and the conversations, long takes, quick cuts.
Example: This Is England - Hand held camera shot as boy attacks a man, a few quick jump cuts to show an action happening, close up shots of the boy and man talking to show their facial expressions and reactions. Long shot of environment - it is dirty, there are puddles, tyres on the floor. Expansion of time as they jump into the water for fun.
Dialogue
How it is used in British Social Realism: Swearing, British accents, slang based in the regional area, we don't always understand some words but we can guess, dialect speech, choice of language.
Example: Kidulthood - "Are you dizzy blud?!" "I'm gonna bang 'em up you understand me" "Who wants a sket like you" "It's cuz you're so buff yeah..."
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