SOCIAL REALISM- Psychological Drama (Shame)

With new wave film production in social realism, a common genre is pyschological drama. These films leave the audience questioning the meaning of the film and is left for interpretation (Barthe) and the meaning remains open. Because social realisms are mostly based on character rather than plot, this helps provoke a more of a sense of sympathy/empathy/happiness or whichever emotion is trying to be portrayed hence enables the audience to be more intrigued with the film as they can relate to the character.

An example of a social realism film that has the genre of a psychological drama in it is Shame.
The film illustrates character very well which is a common feature and purpose of social realism films and we wish to do this in our own trailer.

The lightning used in this film looks slightly like the one we hope to use which is 'incandescent'. This seems to be ideal because it creates a serious yet moving type of atmosphere which provokes so many emotions from the audience. We also hope to achieve this in our trailer.

The sound used in Shame is heavy classical music. The use of the orchestra acts well with the theme of the film which is romance but also is hard hitting because Michael Fassbender is being a romantic in the wrong way almost. The music makes the role of Fassbender almost justifiable because sometimes we catch glimpses of him in his purest form and we can see that he is indeed quite a confused character. We obtain of all this from the trailer, and we hope to make as much of an impact as that trailer does.