Drama Film Research

After looking at particular thrillers, my group and I decided to look at some films that were actually under the drama genre that present social realist elememts and issues. The 2000 film Love, Honour and Obey was one of the films that caught our attention during the research process, mainly because the title was actually very similar to one of our potential slogans, depsite it not being a film that was solely linked to marriage or domestic violence. In the clip above, the true reality of the 'gangster world' is shown and as a result, makes this particular film an ideal example of a gritty British social realist film, that deals with issues of violence. However, this specific film is also a certificate eighteen and our group had to remember that the strong use of language and violence is not something which we wanted to portray in our own piece.

Trainspotting is also a film that deals with social issues and is therefore a film that is labelled under the category of a drama genre. In this trailer, we see Ewan McGregor speaking to the camera whilst laying on a railway track. When I looked at this particualr trailer, I thought that it was similar to our own planned trailer, in the sense of presenting unusual things. In our trailer, we plan to intergrate the normal with the abnormal, by displaying clips of everyday activities, with shots of a bride walking up an aisle.