Whats wrong with the british film industry?

It seems to me that people are unable to think of films to make or stories to write for the big screen, Everything seems to be a remake of a Classic, pretty much for the music industry too. Are the younger generation unable to come up with their own ideas?

Also many films nowadays seem to represent strong stereotypes on the younger generation which not only discriminates us but can  have a bad influence on kids as films are very graphic and show what younger generations can be influenced into such as sex, drugs, and the harsh reality of murder and life on the streets. Yet again emphasising the lack of film making and ideas as they have resulted in using real world problems as films instead of the good old imagination, for films such as avatar and recently made million pound blockbusters.

The UK Film Council was set up in 2000 with a brief to "create a self-sustaining UK film industry". Over the past decade, it has ploughed £160m of Lottery money into more than 900 productions (some good, some awful). It has also funded the British Film Institute and Skillset, which furnishes the industry with a steady supply of trained technicians. Veteran producer David Puttnam has hailed it as the strategic glue that binds a disparate sprawl of auteurs, craftspeople, circus barkers and market traders and its abolition sparked fierce criticism, both here (where 50 big-name actors signed a letter of protest) and in the US (where Clint Eastwood and Steven Spielberg waded into the fray).

My Clip Walk Through

My Representational clip.

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Firstly the clip starts with a long shot of the two main characters who walk into the alley with the drugs.

·         A short zoom into rubbish and packets of fags and then a pan out onto the main characters faces portray the teenage ‘non-care’ attitude to school and mess, foreshadowing how they don’t care about the consequences of drugs.

·         The clip then moves on to the two characters talking about the drugs and when and where they will be taking them, using the 180* rule letting the audience know clearly that it is a

Conversation and who it’s between.

·         The third character being the one who catches them talking and showing each other drugs then arrives slowly walking down to the alley, and walking up to them then confronting them about what they are doing as its wrong and immoral.

·         They then shout abuse at the third character for speaking her opinions and tell her to ‘piss off’ co notating yet again there non care attitude to people and life and how they feel no sympathy to a ‘friend’.

·         The third character follows them quietly and confronts them again this time using force to grab her, showing his seriousness about what they are doing and how he feels about it and his thoughts on them getting caught.

·         The conversation and clip then ends on argument and finishes with the third character walking away with his head down foreshadowing if they carry on taking drugs they may loose more and more friends as they are acting stupidly. 

Clip Script.

Script

Waterloo Road - Drugs

(Upbeat Music)Lauren:           Is it strong then?

Amy:               Yeah, one joint and you’ll be totally baked. 

Lauren:           Well, what, have you tried it?
Amy:               No but Trevor reckons it good stuff and he knows all about it so…

Lauren:           Well, d’you reckon we’ll be okay?

(Lauren Sniffs Bag)

Amy:               Soon find out. We’re trying it tonight at mine you up for it?

Lauren:           Err yeah I suppose

Amy:               You don’t suppose you in or what?

Lauren:           Yeah I’m in, totally.

(Both hold bag, look in and smile)

Sam:                What are you playing at Lauren?
Amy:               You stupid or what? You almost made me drop this down the

toilet!

Sam:                Yeah and that’s the best place for it!

(Closes bag)

(Music Volume Raises) (Exit Toilet) (Music ends)

Sam:                What? You into drugs now Lauren?

Lauren:           It’s just a bit of grass Sam.

Sam:                And you think that she’s gunna take it like that when she finds out?

Amy:               WE weren’t planning on telling her.

Sam:                Are you mad or what?

Amy:               What’s it to do with you anyway?

Sam:                I was talking to a mate actually

(Amy looks around - exaggerating)

Amy:               What is there someone else in here?

Sam:                No one finds you funny

(Lauren puts her hands on Amy and Sam)

Lauren:           Shut up, both of you, were all mates aren’t we. Come on Sam you are being a little bit of a downer about this; it’s just grass… We should all to go Amy’s after school, smoke a bit, it’ll be a laugh!

Amy:               What? She’s not coming mine!

Lauren:           Oh come on

Sam:                Do you know what I’m not, look you want to get yourself into drugs hen fine but don’t expect me to hang around with you

(Sam leaves)

Waterloo road Clip analysis.

The clip portrayed above is the clip i will be representing in my own production of a video, i will be copying all representational issues featured in the above video. The representational issue conveyed in this clip is the theme of drugs and teenage peer pressure as well as how the younger generation may be more corrupted than older generations.

The Camera editing in this clip varies from birds eye view shots representing the 'God Look' portraying what they are doing is wrong and God may be looking down on them, the clip then moves on to a 180 degree to show the theme of conversation and to make it clear to the audience that they are talking, and the seriousness of the conversation as the fast switches from person to person causes tension in the clip to build leaving the audience wanting to watch the rest of the clip and to see the climax.

At the same time the fast cuts and the camera editing is in place a fast non-diegetic beat is in the background yet again portraying the suspense moment and successfully building tension in the clip, until they exit the toilet where the camera pans across and follows them leaving the toilet the music quiet'ens down and makes the main focus the talking as an argument begins.

The Mise-en-scene in the clip is how the teens are in a school toilet, representing the dirty, run down stereotypical view on school toilets and how what they are doing may be seen as dirty and stereotypical of a generation taking drugs.

The last section of the clip, there are many close ups portrayed making this section obvious that it is an important scene and that the conversation is serious, the camera yet again is at the 180 degree rule conveying the theme of conversation, making it clear to the audience, there is also editing such as the fast cuts from character to character to eventually lead to the climax, however another piece of editing is used when she pushes Sam off of her and the screen shakes co notating the force and built up tension of the scene and the seriousness that Sam has for her friends saftey. The sound in these last clips range from a non-diegetic beat which is at a slow pace at the start and by the end where it has faded portraying just the characters voices making them the main focus point. 

The last part of the clip shows all three girls and how they have been caught with drugs and Sam knows, therefore leaving them the feeling of worrying and how people may find out, therefore foreshadowing that they actually could be found out, the last edit in the clip is the dramatic zoom and pan when the pair walk out of the toilets, showing there disrespect and stereotypical teenage behavior.

 

The following pictures represent camera shots in typical tv Drama's.

The first screenshot featured consists of a close up of the main immigration officer, the typical ‘Bad guy’ in the clip who has come to search the hotel for any unwanted characters, this zoom on the officers face creates an eerie feeling, and lets the audience straight away realise who the bad guy is.Shortly after the officer is seen to be glanced at in a very short fast cut by a black man, this not only represents the ethnicities in the clip but foreshadows that something bad is going to happen, and it will be to another race, the fast paced cuts at the start of the clips begins to build up tension making the clip eventually climax, also the short glance shown brings fear to many of the hotel visitors as its not the first time the immigration has come. The receptionist then greets the officer and feels intimidated by his presence, the officers dark clothes against the receptionist shows This dramatic zoom show the stereotypical police officer walk in with a smug look on his face, at the same time a tense fastt paced music is playing portraying to the audience that something bad will happen.He is the typically quite threatening and she is in all white showing her innocence and honesty, she then looks at her colleague and sets of the code by saying to him ‘can you take the purple acquisition forms down to reception please’ but secretly meaning go hide the immigrants this is where the clip builds up a fast pace and the officer soon realises theres only a small amount of time before all the immigrants will be hidden. The colleague then runs downstairs to warn the immigrants that the immigration service is here, causing yet more tension and for the fast build up of the clip to get more dramatic, the clip then shows a series of shots of the immigrants through bars therefore fore-Representing what could be and that they could all eventually be behind bars after this incident, also the cut above shows a split in the screen white from black yet again stereotyping black people to being bad and the immoral as immigrants are seen as a wrong in our society when in fact they can be very smart, caring and interesting and aspire to be similar to us but the division in society will never let this happen. Not only do the bars convey the prison, but also portrays the imprisonment of the immigrants in the hotel as they can’t escape the fact they are a immigrant, also the repetition of the bar cuts show the situation can happen over and over until they all eventually are locked The shot above features the repetitive shots of the keys and door handles, yet again showing the whole imprisonment also the editing and repetition also shows how the situation has happened before and they are all in a routine of hiding and locking themselves up, showing there disruptive and inhuman lifestyle of constantly living on the edge. Also this mise en scene of the camera angle and the dark shot makes the whole clip seem eerie and extremely intense as at any moment they could find where they are hiding, the music around this shot slows down and becomes very quiet creating a worrying atmosphere, just to trigger off the diabetic fit one of the lady’s have but fortunately one of the men happened to be a Doctor and save the woman which shocks the audience as i said immigrants are seen as being lower class and not as smart. The clip then moves on to where the officers catch one immigrants off guard and arrest him and make their way back out of the hotel where the ‘bad guy’ then bumps back in to the receptionist, and states ‘i know your codes, this time you lost the game’ therefore portraying his bad side to the audience and his lack of care to the people, who will be effected by the arrest, and what will then happen to the immigrant after he has been deported. Shortly after a very slow emotional clip was filmed of the Chinese colleague unlocking and emptying the locker that belonged to the immigrant.

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