The conventions of a independent British social realist movie are, poverty, violence, petty crime and the use of bad language/slang. Nearly all of the independent British social realist movies that we had seen contained multiple themes, not just one, they had a mixture and variation of issues linked to one main theme. In the movie "Scum", the main boy chooses to take the power in the boys detention centre, it had contained a lot of violence in a very shocking matter, as we see him make his own weapon with a sock and two billiard balls, if we compare this to Adulthood(2008), many things had changed, such as the themes, that are revenge, survival, poverty, alcohol, sex and drugs, this is a sequel to KidultHood which had ended with Sam killing a younger boy, and this movie is about the implications of his actions, as the people who he has hurt, set out to take their revenge upon him; the difference between Scum and kidulthood is that the themes are relevant to the time period of when the movie is made and contain themes that are still happening and challenges people face.
These media texts will inform my production as I will use some of the themes and issues shown within the movies, such as violence, crime, bullying and revenge. and also with the costume, it would be more modern, as in kidulthood, as it would add verisimilitude to my piece.
I will conform to the conventions of a British social realist movie as I think that there are many issues that currently happen and I would like to show them in my media text, I would not like to subvert the conventions of a British social realist movie as it is the low budget, location, themes and rough conventions that make the media text British social realist.
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