BSR-Production Log Two

In this weeks media lesson we watched a British social realism film called ' The Selfish Giant' produced by Clio Barnard, we then got set work to do an analysis on the work. The film ' The Big Selfish Giant' gave me a good insight in what a British Social Realism (BSR) film should have it gave me good ideas on what I should include to make it look interesting.
The film was very interesting and when I watched I made notes on the social issues:

Regional Identity : 
Northerners Travellers , Aggressive , Dialect different and costumes and lighting
Age:
All the children in the film have a hard childhood , they work from young ages and put themselves in danger, Adults exploit the kids, the adults are not a role model for the kids either they are also represented as weak.
Disability:
  Arbar has ADHA ( Attention deficit hyperactivity disorder) he is very aggressive and he has learning problems too. Mrs Swift suffers from depression, and Arbars brother is a drug addict.
Social Class:
Working class , under class is lower than working class , the school headteacher is a higher social class than Arbar's mum. Mrs Swift and Swifty have basic poverty no gas and electricity .
Gender:
 Male is dominant and always doing the heavy work whilst female is house wife and weak and voiceless even though one women work amongst men they have the low end job which involves them using there brain which is dealing with money.
Sexuality:
Casual Homophobic runs thorough out the film , and being gay is not an option.
Ethnicity:
White British through out the film only one Asian in the 
movie.

We also looked at 'A Room for Romeo Brass' and 'My Brother the Devil' when we looked at these two films we looked at the mise-en-scene as we had to focus on this for our BSR.


A Room For Romeo Brass:
Production Design: 
This was set in an actual flat and it had the British social realism city view , Romeo wore his coat as a cape, his school jumper had a logo on it this was a community school showing a cheap uniform
Lighting: 
Natural lighting through out the film 
Actors:
ordinary people little boy played Romeo Brass and older lady played his mum , the scene wasn't overly acted.
Colour:
Blue and white showing its dark and dull all British social realism use this colour palette.
Era: 
the film was aiming to set the era in the early 2000 as it had the shell tracksuit and y reg van which many people do not have any more and also a video store, video stores are no longer around and a cowboy shop.

My Brother The Devil: 
Production Design: 
This was filmed in the flats estate like all British social realism are filmed it had the view of the city and then you see the estates. 
 Lighting: 
Natural Lighting was yellow showing that it was played around with
Actors:
Two brothers , the extras from the scene where from the actual estate flat, so there was semi professionalism.
Colour:
 Yellow colour palette through out and the yellow city street showing half bad things are going to happen.
Era: 
Modern era 2014




We then had to choose a British social realism of our choice and analyse the mise-en-scene form it, i chose the opening sequence from 'Ill Manors' I chose this film because it had very good opening and gave me and idea on what I might do, it showed me all the conventions of a BSR:

 I hope when i start filming that my ideas will be just as good as the three examples I have watched, all the three examples have helped me a lot on what i should include in my work.