Production Log 5

What have been the key issues for your research this week?
This week I have learnt about sound and how the credits are presented. I researched into a British social Realism film that I have not yet analysed and found a scene that represents themes, characters and locations really well through the sound. The film I annotated was Kidulthood.

As I could not find the opening scene of the film I decided to annotate a scene that has sound. For my analysis I used Windows Live Movie maker to add captions on the video and uploaded it to YouTube.

The key issues I had with my research was that I realized that the sound in British Realism uses music in a way to connote themes. This could be the lyrics or the pace of the sound.
Also I already know that the opening sequences of British Realism Films have very less dialogue but the scene I analysed also had less dialogue so this could be throughout the film.

I also researched the opening credits in a British Social Realism film I had not analysed. The film I chose was Billy Elliot. I found the opening Institutional Credits of the film. With this film I realized that even though the there was a structure that the films generally follow to show the institutional information, Billy Elliot did not follow the structure. The credits denoted of only the Production companies and the producers of the film as well as the title of the film. There was no information about the cast, director, production design and the other roles in production.

What decisions did you make about the issues and why?
Regarding the sound, I decided that I will try and avoid dialogue within the opening sequence of my own production and I will try to incorporate music that would connote the themes of my film and create a representation of the characters shown through the lyrics and the pace.
I also decided that for my credits, to achieve as much marks as possible I will avoid what is show in Billy Elliot and include all the key roles in the institutional credits structure. I will make sure that they are easy to read but also on screen for a suitable time period as I learnt whilst marking past students work that they lost marks on their institutional credits.