British Film Conventions

Hannah Knipe

Codes and Conventions of British, Social and Realism

• Sexism• Alcoholism• Violence• Lighting • Less Know Actors• Modern V’s Traditional• Different Cultures• Location

• Sexism- attitudes or behavior based on traditional stereotypes of sexual roles. The stereotypical thing of a women is to be at home looking after the family and the man should be out earning enough money to keep the family stable.

• Violence- behavior involving physical force intended to hurt, damage, or kill someone or something. Violence is used in many films today such a crime, drugs or underage pregnancy as they happen everyday. Violence is seen in the film green street.

• Alcohol- Alcohol is a drug that is used for enjoyment. Alcohol is drunk and abused nearly everyday this is also shown in the film green street.

• Lighting- in British film they set the scene with dull dark colours to create a mood, this also enables the audience to know that they are watching a British film set in Britian.

• British Actors- Any British film will always have less known actors or actresses in their films this is because they have a smaller budget and would not be able to pay for the famous Hollywood stars.

Green Street – Violence

• Location- Green Streets main scenes are located in a British street.

• Modern V’s Traditional- Today this is very normal and is likely to happen to have big gangs who are football hooligans were as in the old days this would not be normal.

• Different Cultures- There is a mixture of cultures in the film. This is because today we live in a multicultural society where as many years back everyone would be white British.