Why We Decided To Do Social Realism

We chose to make a production in the genre of Social Realism for these reasons.

1. We were inspired by previous examples of A2 Media Studies productions, and at how much they could show.
2. We wanted to create a production which would encourage a strong, emotional response from our audience.
3. We felt that the codes and conventions of Social Realism were easy to follow without straying too wildly off of them, and felt that with these, we could create an effective atmosphere.
4. As we do not have an extensive budget, we felt the simplicity and stark reality of the genre of Social Realism would be far easier to create than that of another genre, such as Sci-Fi or Western, which would involve extremely specific characters, props, settings etc.
5. Social Realism uses the lives of everyday people. We felt this was best as it would make casting, location, narrative etc far easier, as it would be based on a realistic and believable situation.

As you can see, this genre certainly struck us from the onset. We were particularly inspired by a trailer in this genre made by students in the year prior to ours, called In Headlights. I have included it below for reference.


We thoroughly enjoyed how this simple, and somehow beautiful, trailer drew such strong emotions from us, and we felt the use of such realistic settings made it extremely relatable.

In Headlights - By Evangeline Smith, Olivia Norman-Reade, Harry Crotty and Oliver Endersby