Colour Palette

This is our colour palette. It takes inspiration from the colour palettes used by film directors such as Wes Anderson and Martin Scorsese. The clash of warm and cold tones represents the harsh world where joy and freedom are often overcome by a bitter struggle, a theme prominent in many social realism films. 

We plan to stick to this colour palette throughout the creation of our promotional packages. We will continually refer to it and ensure that we are using those colours.

Reflection (post the creation of our promotional package):

I believe that we did stick to the colour palette well. For the trailer, we used the colour gradient bar in iMovie to add blue, colder tones to many of our shots. Warmer tones were added to shots such as the protest scene to show a progressive part to life.

Reflection of AS and current affairs

Prostitution Research

UK prostitution facts

There were 60,879 prostitutes in the UK in 2009, who had an average of 25 clients per week - each paying on average £67.16 per visit 

One in 10 British men say they have paid for sex, a study of 6,000 found, while 3.6% admitted going to prostitutes in the past five years

The trade in the human trafficking of foreign women to be sexually exploited in the UK is worth at least £130m

50% of women in prostitution in the UK started being paid for sex acts before they were 18, while 95% street prostitutes are problematic drug users 

About 17,500 men pay for sex each year in Northern Ireland. Only about 20 people still work as street-based prostitutes, the majority advertise online and work from houses

Sources: Office for National Statistics, University College London, Home Office and Queen's University Belfast

"It would not stop people from entering the trade, it would give them less choice in the type of customer they had, which would probably mean they would take greater risks."

It is not actually illegal to sell sex in Britain, but it is illegal to solicit - offering sex in a public place.

A suburb in Leeds is the first place in the UK where it is permitted for women to sell sex between specified hours. The "managed approach" was introduced to try to control the trade.

Child Neglect Research

Source: NSPCC.org.uk

Neglect is the ongoing failure to meet a child's basic needs and is the most common form of child abuse. A child may be left hungry or dirty, without adequate clothing, shelter, supervision, medical or health care. A child may be put in danger or not protected from physical or emotional harm. They may not get the love, care and attention they need from their parents. A child who's neglected will often suffer from other abuse as well. Neglect is dangerous and can cause serious, long-term damage - even death.

In 2009 the NSPCC interviewed over 6,000 young adults, teenagers, children and parents of younger children. Our report looks at their experiences of abuse and neglect. It examines the impact of abuse and highlights that many children experiencing abuse by their parents or carers also experience other forms of abuse from other people. Although these findings remain the most robust UK-wide research-based indication of the prevalence of child abuse and neglect available, they are increasingly dated. 

• 1 in 10 children have experienced neglect
• Over 26,000 children were identified as needing protection from neglect in 2016
• Neglect is the most common reason for taking child protection action
• 33% of contacts to the NSPCC’s helpline were concerns about neglect
• 42% of the concerns that the NSPCC’s helpline referred to police or children’s services related to neglect

Recent Child Neglect News Story in Coventry:

A man and a woman have been arrested on suspicion of child neglect after a disturbance at a house in Coventry, police have said. The child was taken under safeguarding measures from the address in Station Street West, Foleshill. A 29-year-old man and a 31-year-old woman were arrested on suspicion of wilful neglect of a person under 16. Both were bailed after the incident, which happened at about 21:00 GMT on Friday.

Alcoholism Research

As one of our characters within the film would be an alcoholic, we thought we would do some research into the effects on the family as a result of alcoholism, what is alcoholism and what qualifies a person to be an alcoholic?

Source: drinkaware.co.uk

Sexual Assault Research

In order to gain a better understanding of how real and horrorific this issue is within today's society we did some research into sexual assault including rape, sex with someone under the age of consent and other sexual violence.

Source: rapecrisis.org.uk

Representation Theory

Below are a list of representations that we could include within our trailer according to these theorists:

Levi Strauss:
Binary opposite

Laura Mulvey:
The Male Gaze

Angela McRobbie:
Stereotypes and use of confirmed gender roles
Woman- weaker, victims, mothers, carers, etc.
Men- aggressive, strong, leaders, etc.

Stanley Cohen:
Groups are demonised through negative representations
Moral panic about this group
Donald Trump demonising Mexicans

bell hooks:
'Ain't I a Woman?'
Feminism and Race
Intersectionality- where all the issues of discrimination converge
Black women- the convergence of sexism and racism
'emasculating the patriarch'
the oppositional gaze

Liesbet Van Zoonen:
the difference between the representation of women's bodies and men's
Gender is performative