British Social Realism through History

In this powerpoint, I will show how British social realism films have denoted these following conventions over time.

• Themes and situations
• Characters
• Locations and setting
• Sound
• Camera work and Editing
• Other mise-en-scene

British Social Realism through History from Zuhak14

By researching about these films, I have learnt many ways in which British social Realism has evolved throughout history. The themes have generally stayed the same. As British Social Realism denotes the struggles of everyday lives, the films have shown many negative themes such as poverty, I noticed was shown throughout the years as well as Violence. The way the films had denoted violence had changed. for example in the past, violence was denoted quite graphically by showing blood and stabbing whereas now the violence is shown the same but with less details. Also the theme sex come through alot and it mostly had to do with promiscuity through woman and this was how woman were represented throughout history of this genre. The films also showed that men were the people who worked in the house in the past but as the films aged, woman began to work aswell. Regarding locations, I noticed that mostly every shot was filmed on location to make the film look realistic and that is what I will do when I film my own work. The lighting used was mostly natural, again showing realistically. The sound changed alot over the years. Before there was really less music and it was mostly slow music with no beats and only instrumental. Whereas the films now use the music in a way to connote themes and the lyrics have a meaning to them. The films editing have improved over the years and you now see many cuts and fast shots and this is what I will try to include in my own work. The mise-en-scene has not changed that much but the costumes has evolved as time evolved and again, the characters wore their everyday clothing so I have to make sure I do that too. Overall, British Social Realism has not changed mostly genre wise as it always shown the everyday struggles in everyday working class people lives.