What brief are you working to?
Our brief was to create a British social realist opening sequence, as a new upcoming director for Film4, to be aimed at an audience ranging from the age 16 - 24. The opening sequence was to be 2 minutes long and will follow the use conventions of a British social realist film. An initial idea we had was to show a boy being beaten up, which resulted in him having slight memory loss and the the film would be him, day by day, getting closer to his attacker and seeking revenge. this we thought was a good idea, but to clean and cut and we wanted to make it a bit more edgy and different, as it was following conventions of Film4 films.
Explain how it explores the themes of British Social Realism We thought our original idea was a very typical idea, one change we made was that the main character would be a girl, adding to British social realism and following the sort of path that fish tank went down. We also changed the girl to be a basket player and after being beat up she has to stay in a wheelchair, this would add aspiration, one of the themes of British social realism, to our film. after these changes are film went as followed; a girl playing basketball in the park, the next thing she knows shes woke up in a hospital and her best friend is standing by, her friend explains the story and we see flashbacks as she narrates what happened. the doctor tells our main character that she will be paralyzed from the waste down and so our opening sequence ends on a bit of a cliff hanger, where the audience are left with what she does next.
Explain the title and what happens in your opening sequence making reference to the treatment.
Our title 'Wheel Power' we finally decided on, after many different titles. We decided on this because we would of liked to see that our main character, after her incident, still went on to do well and played basketball in a wheelchair, still going for the aspiration theme, so ' Wheel Power ' seemed best suited, as it connotes to the audience without seeing the whole film that she finds the power to get up and get on with her life and doesn't let her incident stop her.
Our two minute opening sequence explores the British social realism themes in a way where, it appeals to a small, niche audience as of the gritty and upfront nature. It shows a teenagers life, through a view that does not have rose tinted glasses and shows the true down falls of life, and how hard it can be. It also is very very British, in where, only Britain will understand it and want to watch it, it will not be a film that goes global and is sold out everywhere, not even in cinemas, as it is not all pretty and happy endings, which the mainstream audience will enjoy. This will see that our film is recognised as a British Social Realist film.
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