Social Realist Conventions

This genre involves social issues within poverty and contemporary culture. It represents the youth of today and is very real to how they act today. It is closely based on youth from a working class or lower who live in the inner city, following the lives they live and social problems they face and how they deal with it. this type of genre is portrayed in films such as Adulthood, Kidulthood, This is England, Shank, 4.3.2.1 etc. Many of them involve gun crime, sex, drugs and alcohol abuse and gangs. Some may think that it is exaggerated but it is the story of the unseen side of teens coping with social problems. For our film to be successful we will need to follow these conventions of gun crime, drugs etc. but also costumes, languages, accents etc. For example you will find that in many of these films, the characters tend to wear their hoods up, and have an accent where they use slang, portraying the type of character they are.