Characters

 my sequence will only involve two characters, the protagonist, Barry Clark, who will be played by my close friend Michael Uney and the antagonist, the loan shark who will be played by another close friend Karim Skalli. I believe with only two characters it will be a lot easier for me to make my sequence as I will not have to rely on a large number of people to always turn up and be on time etc.

Props

I will not be using many props in my sequence as the two characters will be mainly talking. Stereotypically the loan shark may be carrying a gun if he’s that type of man but I won’t be using a gun as I won’t be able to get my hands on a fake one that looks real enough.

Location

I will be shooting my sequence down on the old fish docks. I think this is a good place to film as it is all run down and abandoned and looks the type of place a dangerous man would tell someone to meet him if he was going to be up to no good, as no one would be around to see.
I will also be filming some of it in my girlfriends nanas house and is it has an old 'social realist' look to it.

Costume

 I want Barry Clark to be wearing a scruffy pair of jeans and a dirty jumper or a t shirt, so he looks like a stereltypical lower class unemployed man, and the loan shark will be wearing a smart shirt and trousers to show he’s all about business. 

Inspirational film clips

My extended sequence was influenced by the scene in 'Raining Stones' by Ken Loach when the loan shark goes to Bob's house to collect his money but Bob wasn't there and his wife had no idea about it all.

Unfortunately I couldn't find the exact scene I wanted.

This is a Social Realsim short film that I found on YouTube which a student had made. It has a very similar storyline to mine and is something I can look to for bits of inspiration. The video has a good use of music and I am now considering using music in my video as it can work very well if used properly.

This is England is a fantastic Social Realist film from the director Shane Meadows. It doesnt have a similar storyline to mine but is set in the same place, northern england, duing the time Thatcher was prime minister and I think it is a great film to look for inspiration.

Kes is another fantastic Social Realist film from director Ken Loach. It doesnt have a storyline like mine but it is set in a similar time period and is a great film for inspiration for the Social Realist genre.

Update

I am curently in the proccess of storyboarding my extended sequence. Once I have finished I will make my animatic and I will crack on with filming.

In my developed sequence I will be stearing away from really fancy camera shots and fancy editing and keep it fairly straight forward to keep it more social realist as if I were to use fancy camera shots and editing it wouldnt look 'real' as such.

Still images representing Social Realism

 I believe these are all images that represent the Social Realist genre really well. They all show working class or unemployed people in a run down, industrial northern Britain, which is fantastic as in my film I will be filming in a run down area in northern Britain and it is about an unemployed man.