Genre

The decided genre of our film is Social Realism, which is a typically British film genre that focuses on current issues in modern society such as money, drugs and illness but can also delve into issues surrounding religion and politics. Although our film is strongly related to war, it focusses on the issue of mental illness, as our film follows the development of mental illness of our main character, Tim, who gets to the point of mental stability where he feels he has to kill his own sister in order to fulfil his purpose as a soldier.  

Some of the main conventions of social realism are:

- using unknown actors
- working class social status
- current issues
- political or religious views
- young actors/characters, normally between the ages of 13 and 20.









The company we would use to produce our film would probably be Film4, because they are famous for producing British Social Realisms like ours.