Soundtrack

Due to the low budgets within the social realist film sector, some British production companies will typically focus on real life issues, such as sex, drugs, violence and or a journey from the bottom to the top, with them hoping that these issues are appealing to a local audience. As they might be able to relate to some of the issues raised during the film, for example Fast Girls(2012) show the journey of a young ambitious female protagonist who is trying to make her life better and uses athletics as the outlet in doing so. The choice of music genres are justified by the stock characters included within British Social Realist films; conventionally, we see the inclusion of stereotypes such as 'chav's, misfits, gang members etc. Rap culture is usually associated with gang's; if a production company incorporates music linked with stereotypes, they can build a image for a character and 'hook' the audience. House music is relative to drug culture, further conforming to the representation of 'social realism' themes and increasing character imagery. These music types also appeal to a young audience who are, conveniently,  the intended consumer for 'social realism' films. We can see one of the genres used above with Adulthood(2008) which is well acclaimed British 'social realist' films.

No Lay is a UK rap/hip hop artist /singer whose music is used within the production 'Adulthood'. The UK rap/hip hop music conforms to the stereotypical representation of being 'gang related'. The song title could also be relative to the plot within the film, building an image of the hard life led by Adam Deacon and Noel Clarke's characters respectively living on a council estate.

We have now decided on the two soundtracks which we are going to use in our trailer and we believe it really adds to a film trailer to portray different moods and emotions within a scene. Previously we thought of featuring slow paced moving music which would emphasise more emotional scenes within my trailer. However, we had to consider the length of our trailer and how much of the story we were going to give away, so we came to the conclusion that we were going to use two soundtracks in our trailer.