Production Log 7 - Creative Thinking

This week we were studying different news stories and stories of films in a British Social Realist film, first of all we have already more or less covered this as it links very much to all the different conventions and topics of this genre of film, for example the theme of drugs and alcohol obviously means that the story will include them. So instead of going over all the themes and all the different conventions we looked at newspapers to see if we can find inspiration for a plot or narrative for the film we will create the opening sequence for. We looked at a wide variety of different newspapers that were all British and from local areas, varying from the type of paper they were, we had newspapers that were and weren't tabloid papers. We looked for stories with a negative tone as that would be the only thing that would fit the genre and for stories that were in local standard areas and not stories that would be completely impractical to record. 

From studying these newspapers we then picked out stories that we thought were fitting to the genre of British Social Realism and then altered the story so that it fit the genre and the setting of where we are much better. We had to make decisions on ow we would change the story as well as finding stories that were potentially controversial as this way they would have a moral to the story, something for the audience to take out from it.