CCR Question Research #1

CCR Question #1 Research

How does your product use or challenge conventions and how does it represent social groups or issues?

My film opening uses conventions of social realism by showing the protagonist doing activities like smoking(or trying to smoke) and him owning the (fake) weed and just skipping school while his parents think he's going.

Many times in other social realism films, the main character comes from a harsh upbringing since childhood, but in this opening we wanted to put a twist on it whereas Oliver comes from a wealthy, happy family which helps combat the ordinary conventions that ties to a social realism film.

The opening is also based around a character v. self type of scenario where the kid is having trouble balancing out both lives of his, and I think that my costumes for the character (white button up for good side black hoodie for bad side) really help the narrative of the story without much dialogue needed to back up context to the opening.

Script:

 My film opening uses multiple conventions of social realism and represents societal issues happening in suburban communities. The opening does a good job setting the tone for the opening by starting with the kid getting ready for school in a white button up and the right after trying to light a cigarette but failing. This opening also represents some of the social issues going on in suburban neighborhoods or privileged cities, where many kids that usually have everything, want to act like they come from some sort of struggle or used to come from a place like that and start doing all types of activities like skipping school, drugs, and overall doing what they're not supposed to. My opening does a good job portraying this with the activities that are implied or shown by the protagonist.