BSR Timeline

SOCIAL REALISM TIMELINE
Decade	1950	1960	1970	1980	1990	2000	2010
Key film	Look Back In Anger (1959)	Poor Low (1967	Bronco Bullfrog (1970)	My beautiful laundrette (1985)	Trainspotting (1996)	Kidulthood (2006)	Ill manors (2012)
conventions	-Themes and situations: Dancing, music (jazz) may be relatively tantamount to clubs and bars of today. -mundane clothing, nothing extra or extravagant, typically BSR. Characters mainly all white –  Social class may be working class -Location: Local club or bar - Key focus is based on older male character rather than youths - Urban city – Trains and lots of houses. -Sound – Not much dialogue -Strong Regional identity -Natural lighting – No special effects -Editing is kept simple -Props are used a lot (all real-instruments)	-Themes and situations: main scene – bath scene washing man -Woman and man arguing outside showing woman’s inferior persona -Characters: male, female both white typical middle class characters. - Sound: Dialogue: cockney accents - No music used, focus on two main characters. -Themes show bullying for the boy -Location and setting: Urban house – streets -Lighting: naturalistic.	- Naturalistic lighting - Mischievous youth - Corruption of youth - Drinking alcohol relatively the same as adulthood characters taking drugs. - Working class romance - 1970s Stratford city East London Urban - Focus is on story of youths - Gang violence alleyway scene - Real settings-café’s -strong accents - Music is that of era - Careless camera work - Clothing is quite unadorned - Dialogue: cockney accents	-Themes and situations: Dialogue between two characters in laundrette. - Characters: one character is working class; the other seems to be middle class or upper class. - Strong regional identity -filmed on location - Clothing fits period (everyday clothing) - Naturalistic lighting - Dialogue is nothing intricate, just standard discussions	- Themes and situations: Drinking – bar fight scene, hectic – large amount of swearing - Chaotic -young adults used - Typical British white men portrayed. - Very strong regional identity, use of accents. -Filmed on locations – Bar. -typical circumstances that would occur in actual life (bar fight) -natural lighting -no extravagant editing -clothing matches era -clothes that general population would wear	-corruption of youth - Teenagers causing trouble – Gets Gameboy back by breaking into Sam’s house. - Characters: young teenagers from the age of around 15-16 - Diverse characters – multi racial: Black and white characters, different regional identities. - Council Estate : working class -Typical music that teens of this era would listen too. - Pace of music matches tempo of scene -naturalistic lighting -filmed in mundane locations -clothing depicts era	-music from era (grime) -modern clothing -drug abuse theme -political racism -filmed on locations -corruption of youth -natural lighting -accents (regional identity) -Unknown actors

In what ways has British Social Realism evolved over the last sixty years?? British Social Realism has developed and evolved drastically over the last sixty years, from production design to themes and situations. Every little detail of British Social Realism films have changed and become significantly more generalised, with issues of today’s society. The recent BSR (British social Realism) Films are more focused on the youth, from ages of around 13 to 18, this is because in today’s society this is the main problem seen by the general public and government, that teens are becoming increasingly worst, this is seen through the footage of recent London riots and statistics. The themes used in today’s BSR films revolves more around drugs, and gang violence as again this is a contemporary issue, which wasn’t much of a problem 60 years ago. BSR films 60 years ago focused on a less gritty society and a more functional working society which may not even come across as working class.