- Real life and relateable topics that an audience can understand and empathise with the characters on.
- Believable topics and storylines - if the audience loses belief in the film, it will lose authenticity and they will lose interest and word of mouth will be negative.
- The plot will often involve a lower class/working class people
- The plot should be realistic to a lower/working class perspective
- A hand held shot or point-of-view shot will often be used to give the film a documentary feel and to show the characters feeling in a visual way.
- It should contain minimal amount of editing to give a more realistic effect
- Minimal amount of non-diagetic sound if not none. Should only to be put in a social realism film for effect.
- Establishing shot so the audience always know where the scene is being taken place.
Whats expected in a British Social Realism film;
- Shooting on locations and not studios, rarely any special effects.
- The use of wide shots
- Not always highly proffesional blockbuster actor - can be small time British actors not A-List
- Semi-improvised scripts - a lot of social realism films rely closely on improvisation
- an element of both comedy and drama
- The destruction of regional identities
- A long list of social issues - makes relateable and believable topics for an audience to relatable
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