Possible Locations

Peckham - South London:

Peckham is situated in South London. This is a very rough area and has a high level of crime. I have been there myself and there are many estates whcih would be a great place to film and they're very much like what you see in a Social Realist Film. There are all the typical conventions, such as the estates, estate parks where drug deals and fights take place, alley ways and tacky shops on the high street. Films like Fish Tank have most of these scenes and, such as the high street and the estate. On the news we also hear of high levels of crime in South London, so whatever would be filmed there would very much be British Social Realist. You would also be able to film there at any time of day, as the area is very dull and depressing with not much life at all.

Dagenham Heathway

Dagenham Heathway is a rough and tacky area and the high street and the people in the area are look it too. This would be a great place to plot a film, as there are many council estates and houses, and the area on a whole is just somewhere you wouldn't want to live, but people that are like the ones in British Social Realist films, live in this sort of area. I think that it would be easy to film, as there's never really a good day there it just looks bad all the time. 


Hainult Forest

Hainult Forest would be a good location, as it could be a place where something like drug dealing happens, or a meeting point for groups of people to meet and something bad happens. If the theme was mental illness it would also be good as the person may go there to let out there emotions or even to kill themselves. Instead of it being on the streets, it would basically be in the middle of a forest. I think it would be effective  as it would make the scene darker, and change the happy natural feel of it, to scary.


Mark Gate:

Marks Gate is quite a rough and tacky area, with loads of council. Naturally it looks like a bad area, so to film there would be a perfect spot. I think that a lot of people there in the background would help with the theme, as they all dress quite a lot like how people in British Social Realist films dress. The this would be a good place to have things like petty crime filmed, as the area seems to look like that sort of area, so it would be very believable.