Evaluation; In what way does your media product use, develop and challenge forms and conventions of real media products?

I have analysed a couple social realist trailers:This is England and Birghton Rock.
Our film doesn't use much dialouge although for the lack of dialouge the piano peice we used over the top of the trailer creating tension. Text is used to describe the story to the audience This makes up for the lack of dialogue and so the audience know what is going on. We used the tagline 'Love Will Tear The Apart' which is a twist on the song 'Love will tear us apart' by Joy Division. This will help give the audience familiarity as our target audience are likely to know that song. There is a quite clip of the two brothers fighting in our trailer which can be seen as a convention of social-realism. For example, it is present in the 'Sweet Sixteen' trailer. There is a shot of me up against a fence looking out into fields. We have used symbolism here as drugs can also be seen as a covention of social-realism fillm which is present in our trailer where i deal cocaine to another boy so that i can make a living out on the streets with no home. This is showing that he has turned to crime. The last three shots are quick cuts of each of the the main characters. It shows how each of them is dealing with the stress of the pregnancy. The first shot shows me drug dealing which shows that i doesn't seem very affected by it because i am just out to make money and it looks like i have forgotten about them both. The last two are of Cora then Jack who are both sat down looking depressed and it end there making the audience wanting to go and watch the film and find out what happens in the end if they become happy or if there lives break apart even more.



http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H0jkv2bRFgQ - This is England trailer
In this, this is england trailer it has 107 shots showing many parts of the story muddled up, and it shows a young boy going from being bullied to being in a gang of older teenagers around 17-18 and changes his look and attitude in life and lets noone make fun of him. He learns a hard lesson through the choices he makes throught the film. The very first shot was Margret Thatcher showing the date of which the film was made it also shows blocks of flats, this shows that were the film is set is in a fairly poor part of the neighbourhood, meaning working class people surviving on minimal pay and having to look after children, mainly single parent mothers that are very protective of their children of which one of these is the mother of Shaun that is one of the main characters and just wants for him to be safe in the neighbourhood.