Mini Research Evaluation

Six key findings we found out whilst carrying out our research tasks were;

Who our target audience is using our psyco-graphic and demographic – Solomon

Used powerpoint to create mood boards identifying key target audience.

Inner London youth, males aged between 15 and 25. People in the C1, C2 D and E categories as they’re most likely to watch these types of films.

The key conventions of a social realism film – Solomon

Used youtube to watch trailers and identified key themes within social realism.

Talk about costumes, lighting, language, common actors used, budgets, local setting, on location shooting, protagonists behavior.

Where social realism films are consumed – Sean

Used serve monkey to create a questionnaire and found out that..

Local London cinemas. Usually the smaller chain or independent cinemas. DVD release, illegal online websites and legal online streaming such as Netflix.

The locations and settings of a social realism film – Sean

Used IMDb to find out current filming locations of recent social realism films

London Estates, parks, blocks of flats and normal streets. Usually filmed with hand held cameras and filmed on location.

We found out they receive more critical success than commercial success – Abena

Researched social  realism film history, posters and profiles and found that

Usually don’t make a lot of money. Posters and DVD covers usually have good quotes from film magazine and newspaper reviews.

Finally we found out that social realism films represent the youth of today - Abena

Deal with local and real life issues, such as drug, gun and knife crime.

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