Animatic

This is our group animatic for our opening sequence of a British Social Realism which involves two best mates who live for the weekend who do three things in life drugs, steal, fights. But after looking at his life one mate wants out.

Mood Board

prop and costume possibilities

Props

the possible props that we will need will include:

- Fake Drugs - Ecstacy(sweets), heroine(needle with water - not injected), Cocaine(sherbert)

- DVD Cases
- Rizzla
- Alcohol


Costume

the possible costumes that we will need will include:

- cap (burberry)
- Parker coat
- hoody
- trackies
- warn trainers

Title Credits

We will have to include our title credits which will include most probably:

- Director
- Editor
- Sound Editor
- Cinematographer
- Producer
- Actors Names

etc.

we will try to include all of these in the opening sequence in the same fade or style we decide on.

Title ideas

For our British social realism we have decided on a few title names to use:

- Cold Turkey
- Addicted
- Addict
- sweep stake

we have decided to name our film Cold turkey because as a group we have thought that Cold Turkey would represent the film in a better context.

Overall plot

we have based are ideas upon British social realism dramas and have gone with the idea of 'drug addiction' and two friends life, of how one wants to leave the drug cycle as his life is spiraling into a black hole which he cant get out of unless he gives up the drugs. One friend loves his life at the moment but the other one wants out the only way he can is go against his life and friend. Our idea has originated from Social realism dramas such as trainspotting and rise of the footsoldier.

Room for Romeo Brass Analysis

The film 'A Room For Romeo Brass' was released in 1999 and directed by Shane Meadows. It is a social realist drama that won awards for best british film, best director and best british screenplay. It follows the young Romeo and his best friend Gavin, as they undergo a tumultuous period in their childhood. After saving them from a beating by some local youths, the enigmatic Morell befriends the two boys and takes a liking to Romeo's older sister, Ladine Brass. However when Gavin plays a practical joke on Morell to make him look foolish in front of Ladine things turn sour for the pair. In retaliation Morell attempts to drive a wedge between the two best friends in order to keep them apart and thus ensure that he stays close to Romeo and Ladine. But when Ladine rejects Morell's advances he becomes increasingly violent towards Romeo and Gavin, leaving it up to Romeo's absentee father, Joe, to save the day.

The sequence opens with Romeo and Gavin walking through the countryside but the pair have to rest because of Gavin's bad back. They then continue to walk until they come to the local chip shop where romeo has been sent to get dinner for the family.
The camera shots are fairly slow giving each character a lot of screentime. The camera shots start with an establishing shot showing the boys in a field. Then the camera zooms in to a mid shot to show the two boys talking. The opening sequence is accompanied by a soundtrack,"A Message to You Rudy" by The Specials. This gives to opening scene a light hearted atmospere. I think this is to show contrast from the start of the film to what happens later on. The music continues to point where romeo gets home and gets told off for eating everyones food. This intensifies the mood of the scene. This is example of social realism as this is a real life situation.

Conventions of a British social realism

Most British social realism Dramas include certain conventions to make them a social realism drama, we will have to make sure our ideas include these conventions, they include:

- working class
- edge of society
- crime
- unemployed
- troubled
- drugs
- personal relationships
- real life situations
- reality
- rarely stylized and exaggerated

Football factory Analysis

Football Factory Analysis

I am looking at British social realism so in order to analyse the opening sequence of football factory, I will look at the different micro elements and try and establish how they are used to set up character, narrative and genre.

The music to start off with is Primal Scream – swastika eyes quite a drum and bass/indie type music that would be used in this term to build up as if they were ‘buzzing’ a build up towards a bigger scene, this also represents the characters and what there about as we can tell a meet or arranged fight.
The mise en scene is one of the most important factors I feel as its all about reputation and from the costumes the characters are all wearing ‘fighting’ related costumes such as stone island and duffle coats, as well as the cockney accent and large groups preparing for a meet. You can tell from the location of tottenham hotspur football club with surrounding police. All of this gives off this build up with a tense dialogue and military type actions lead to this big meet.
The camerawork on the opening sequence starts with a small establishing shot with a few characters, then it switch’s to sharp switching group shots with a lot of tracking shots to show the readiness of them getting to the meet. There are a lot of group shots to represent the ‘firm’ aspect.
The editing of football factory is sharp gritty edit to represent the characters emotions, however t slows down on the monologue sequence and shows Danny Dyer’s thoughts on life but speeds back up and gets hit to show there overall life and what they live for, fighting.

So overall it’s sequence that wants to show urban fighting and show the brutal side to football but still have this bond n firms.

Lewis Bird