Evaluation - Part One

The brief that we where given was the Film 4 has asked us to make a new British Social Realism film that was aimed for people aged 16-24. We had to give the first tow minutes of what our film would be like and it had to; provide a clear sense of the graphical, editing and musical style your film will use. To protect Film 4’s reputation as a leader in British cinema the film must conform to the conventions of the Social Realist genre, and meet all audience expectations for this type of film. Finally, to keep costs low, all visual and audio material used in the film must be entirely original, with the exception of stock sound effects.

The title of our film me and my partner Delon made is called 'Choices'. We decided you use this title as it gives the audience a clear meaning of what is going to happen in our film. As we said on the treatment we thought that the title was quite fitting as we thought it had a real sense of ambiguity and connoted to our audience the possible themes that would happen and would involve the story life of the protagonist making choices. This then brings then feeling of enigma running through the film as you wonder what choices he has to make.

In our opening sequence it starts off which establishing shot of the area so the audience can get a feel of how the area is. I then starts off with Kaden laying down showing he is a typical teenager who is being lazy, he then gets up to see his brother cleaning a knife that had blood all over it. This the brings enigma to the audience as you do not see his face and the audience begin to wonder why was there blood on the knife. Kaden then goes out and finds his brother's , gang members smoking. As they have asked Kaden to be doing deals with drugs but Kaden has not been doing that they then start to get angry and start chasing him through the park. It then stops there so the audience want to know what happens to Kaden after the opening sequence.

The theme that we got from the vox pop's was to include violence as this is what the target audience like to see. They did not want it to be overly violent as they said they wanted it to be realistic. From this feedback we decided to show violence when Kaden's brother is cleaning the knife that has blood on it. This denotes to the audience that Kaden's brother has been involved with criminal behavioral. The other themes that were used where corruption of youth for Kaden who is growing up in a bad area and the gang is trying to make him sell drugs. Other themes was aspritation and escape as Kaden does not want to live this life anymore, poverty at the start of the scene as it shows in the room and petty crime as there asking Kaden to sell drugs.