Reseacrh and Planning: Why we chose 'Drugs' as a focus point in our story?

The drugs we focus on in our films are those that contain illegal substances, that make them class A/B to the general public. These drugs are a source of tackilng depression and act also, in some cases as a 'pulse raiser' which can improve your heart rate and help making it feel more lively and careless. The reason we chose to feature drugs in this film, is because drugs can easily be portrayed as a representation of destruction, and through addiction and over dose they can seriously harm or danger the human taking them, and can not only physically but mentally affect someone, causing them to ruin stages of their lives, i.e friendship or relationships with family and friends.


In relation to our trailer/story, we use drugs to cue the destruction of a relationship, and in fact the human mind. It emphasises the affect Lizzie recieves from the drugs, which is negatively re-inforced by 'events' within the trailer. She eventually loses her life, and it's this negative representation of drugs we wanted to emphasise through our trailer, which links to conventions of social realism as a theme; as already used as an example in social realist films such as 'Shifty'. Due to our storyline having such a real brutality about it, it's what determines our trailer to be a social realist genre-based production.

Reseacrh and Planning: Location Research

The style of our film involves certain codes and conventions which can be emphasised by using particular techniques. Most social realist films are shot on location to reinforce the 'realism' of the film. This means that we will have to use appropriate locations which will correspond to the style of the film. Quite often, social realist films focus on 'Urban Britain' and the lower classes of society. The locations we choose must reflect this.
These may include:

• Subways
• Parks
• Council Estates
• Block of flats
• Graffiti on walls
• Run down houses
• Bus stops
• Train stations

All of these locations are the type of areas which are often featured within social realist films and are the type of areas which we need to involve within our trailer.

Reseacrh and Planning: Character Profile: Ty's Brother 'Ralph'

Ralph plays a very low key role in this trailer, only featuring in a few scenes. He is the brother of Tyrone and plays a very unknown, sudden role as his random and sudden appearance seems to be the cue for the drama and action to unfold in the trailer. He seems to know alot about Ty, something the audience and Lizzie clearly don't know, this helps create the area of suspicion around the persona of Ty. A fairly tall, popular boy that comes across very angry in the trailer, with masculine and stereotypical characteristics.

Reseacrh and Planning: Character Profile (Ty)

'Tyrone Stirling' is known socially as 'Ty' and is a 19 year old boy, who comes from London. With a unknown and troubled past, 'Ty' is known in the film as Lizzie's boyfriend. From a lower class, uneducated background, we come to understand through the trailer that Ty is fairly popular, however has a bad drug habit and this acts as a barrier from him and Lizzie developing as a couple. Their relationship is very secretive, as Ty comes across very untrustworthy and tends to tell lies, which upsets Lizzie and is a contribution to the troubles identified in the trailer.