Urban Films

Urban Films
The next task I had to complete had me delve into the genre of Urban Film. I started by researching overall what it was that Urban Film was about. They cover this idea of Ostracised lower class and often black communities and the struggles that they have to go through. Urban films explore many issues such as divide in social class, drug use, gang violence, segregation and overcoming economic difficulties.



I then took a look at a few specific films to see how their setting and plots both were similar and different at the same time. By looking at this as well it also helped me to find out that there are specific people such as Adam Deacon or Noel Clark who work specifically with this genre of film as they have both written, starred and directed in Urban films.


The third thing that I looked at was the conventions of Urban Film. This is essentially looking at how the different production features come together in order to create the effect that the film is trying to portray. This can be a variety of things, such as how the camera is used, the different props or clothing involved with specific characters, the setting of the film and even the music that is used