Production Log week 5

What have your key issues been for your pre-production this week?

Our idea was one of the things which caused most of the problems. We had had difficulties with our narrative, our characters and the locations. We went from having our initial idea to changing it completely to a story-line including mental illness as one of our themes.  These issues were quite difficult to solve as we wanted to be original with our idea and not stick to what is typically seen in British Social Realism film such as drugs,sex,violence, alcohol etc. For example in This is England we continually see these themes occuring throughout the film by all the characters even the young ones.

What decisions did you make about the issues and why?

This idea was changed after the feedback we got from our audience research where we asked several different people about our idea that we first started off with. We also altered where we would film the opening sequence which fitted better with our new narrative. We also stuck to one main protagonist however we also had to change their role to match the new story-line. These decisions will hopefully have a positive effect on our production as it will be different to what is typically seen in British Social Realism films and the theme of mental illness is hardly ever seen but it is a issue that is occuring more in Britain. For example the only British social Realism film where we see illness is Looking for Eric as the protagonist is schizophrenic and we see this throughout the film in different ways.