Ideology

As our film involves drug use, gangs and violence there will be mainly negative ideologies. Although the trailer opens with people taking drugs and having fun it may give ideologies that drugs are good and fun and help you relax. However, after this scene the girl protagonist gets into trouble because of the drugs and this leads onto violence and so this gives a different ideology that drugs cause trouble and lead to violence.
As our film is a socail realism film and is set in a working class environment with working class characters this could give connotations that working class people are drug users and are violent. Also, as the girl protagonist is a teenage girl it could suggest that it is teenagers that are drug users and are involved in crime- a common stereotype.
All these ideologies are dominant within society, although the ideology that teens are violent drug users is a controversial ideology that is argued to be have created by the media.
However, in many social realism films the male characters are the dominant and stronger characters and give ideologies that males are stronger than females. This is where we offer an alternative ideology within our text as our protagonist is a female but is presented as strong and goes off to get revenge. We will show this in our trailer as we have a fight scene and the whole trailor centres around her making her look independant and strong.
All these ideologies link to the social realism genre as drugs and violence is a common theme within a social realsim film. Our alternative ideology of the female protagonist is also linked to the social realism genre as most socail realism films offer some kind of alternative.

Chloe