You have been approached by Film 4 to make a new British Social Realist film aimed at British 16-24 year olds. To give Film 4 and idea of how your film will develop they have asked you to produce the first 2 minutes of the film, providing a clear sense of the graphical, editing and musical style your film will use. To protect Film 4's reputation as a leader in British cinema the film must conform the conventions of the Socialist genre, and meet audience expectations for this type of film. Finally to keep costs low, all visual and audio material used the film must be entirely original, with the exception of stock sound effects.
The title of our movie was 'Framed.' The most obvious connotation of the title would be the act of someone being framed - which would be the protagonist which actually happens in the narrative. Another connotation of the title could be that someone has painted a picture and framed it to look like something has happened when in fact it hasn't.
A summary of what happens in out opening sequence is, the protagonist - Jay doing his ordinary job of delivering packages and one day he has to deliver in a basement his never been to before. He delivers the package and gets rang by his employer (antagonist and agent of change) and is told to run, when the door bursts open and an undercover police (second agent of change) arrests Jay as we discover there are drugs in the package. We then see Jay being interviewed in a police station.
The opening sequence sets up the rest of the film as in the opening sequence we see what events occur at the beginning which will lead him to take his revenge and change as a character throughout the narrative. We drew some inspiration from British Social Realism films such as Adulthood as we a flashback of the events which sent Sam to jail and him coming out which sets up the rest of the movie.
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On 1.43 in our opening sequence, we can see how the theme of drugs is explored. We used drugs as in our research the most popular films mentioned when asked 'what British Social Realism movies have you seen' was Kidulthood and Adulthood - which tackled drugs which established the themes in British Social Realism.
Framed
Kidulthood
Other themes we included in the opening sequence was poverty. We denoted that the protagonist was in poverty as in the narrative he was working for minimum wage. This could also be displayed as the clothes worn by the protagonist were very plain and looked inexpensive and had no branding on which could connote the poverty.
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