Elizabeth Bradley A2

Ken Loach  We were particularly inspired by Ken Loach, who directed the award winning social realism film 'I, Daniel Blake' focusing on the theme of unemployment. He is known for his naturalistic, social realist directing style and his socialism approach in his films. Ken Loach uses a socially critical style in which he brings up current social and economical problems, branding him an iconic social realism director. Other issues that Loach has covered in his independent films are topics such as poverty ('Poor Cow', 1967) and labour rights (The Navigators', 2001). During his early years, Loach's films were less successful and recieved criticism and some political censorship. However as his films got accepted more, he began to create more and become more well known for showing the harshest sides of society.  Andrea Arnold Andrea Arnold is another iconic social realism director and directed the BAFTA winning 'Fish Tank' film which we have...

This is the second draft of our trailer for the social realism film 'Cupcake'. We took in instructions and improvements from teachers and peers to improve different areas. We added the final name for our trailer in this draft as well and used different watermarks of other companies at the start to give it a professional and conventional trailer outlook. 

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Location: Shots: Time of day: Needed actors: Props needed: Tunbridge Wells   (12/12/2017) o    Kebab shop o    Café o    Job search o    Public toilets o    Money exchange o    Cupcake meets Debbie 17:00 + (Darkness) Lily Fulton Maeve Wigham o    CV o    Money o    Fur jacket o    Plain black jacket Otford house (13/12/2017) o    Shower shot o    Bed shot o    Lipstick appliance o    Lighting cigarette 17:00 Lily Fulton o    Lipstick o    Red skirt o    Black top o    Cigarettes o    Lighter School (14/12/2017) o    Protest o    Client shot (man doing up belt) o    Blowing...

Our chosen distribution companies for our film are Vertigo Films and Pathe. Both of these support and release independent films, including British Social Realism, which we decided to use as our genre for our trailer Vertigo Films is a British film production and distribution company based in London. The company was responsible for the release of 'London to Brighton' in 2006. This is a film that we will strongly base our own trailer and film on therefore this company would be a great idea realistically as they are known to have distribute films of the same nature and with the same harsh themes as we plan on including. Pathe is a major film production and distribution company and is the name of various French businesses that were previously run by the Pathe brothers in France in 1896, making it the second oldest operating film company in the world. They have distributed films such as 'Pride' (2014) and 'Suffragette' (2015) both which tell real stories tha...

The penultimate scene of our trailer is going to be a protest scene for feminism and women's rights. In order for us to make this a realistic depiction of these protests happening in real life, it is important for us to research and find inspiration so that we can create our own banners and posters successfully. This post shows some examples and ideas of what we intend to create ourselves, such as the girl power sign and the 'women's rights are human rights' statement as both come up more than once in our researching.  It also gives examples of ideas we found and that we intend to use similar words, phrases and images as the research gave us. This will all make the protest scene look a lot more authentic and real, also enhancing the social realism genre.  Below, is the specific slut shaming and victim blaming poster that we thought would be the most relevant of all, due to the strong theme of prostitution within our trailer and film. Below are t...