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Explain how economic contexts shape independent films. Refer to I, Daniel Blake to support your points. ( 15 marks )  30 minutes


I, Daniel Blake tends to contemporary British social issues, for example, neediness, the welfare framework and the Work Capability Assessment. The film depicts a gathering of customarily underrepresented characters in Newcastle battling in neediness to pick up advantages and backing. I, Daniel Blake passes on an unmistakable left-wing political message and censures explicit government strategies. Thought of the more extensive financial setting and idea of "gravity" may be helpful in investigating how changes to profit strategy had been defended.
 Financial variables including subsidising are incredibly noteworthy to this free British co-creation. The financing bodies are the BFI (through National Lottery Funding) and the BBC. 

“I, Daniel Blake” opens with a dark screen, and only the voice of a social worker interviewing Blake about his health and prospects. Back at his modest flat in a dreary postwar apartment complex, Daniel chides his neighbours for leaving their rubbish out, then continues his waron bureaucratic inertia while staying on hold for up to two hours in a Kafkaesque game of attrition.

A superficial reading of “I, Daniel Blake” might leave the impression that Loach and Laverty are critiquing Britain’s bloated and oppressive welfare state, but their true target is privatisation. The social workers and employment “professionals” Daniel works with at the jobs office are all hired by an American contractor. Efficiency, rather than efficacy, is the goal  in an operation that often seems cynically structured to guarantee enough shame, humiliation and frustration on the part of clients that they’ll ultimately give up, saving the “company” untold amounts of money and time.

But Daniel is not one to give up, whether he’s trying to become computer-savvy in a “digital default” world, or to help Katie, a young single mother he takes under his wing with alternately inspiring and heartbreaking results. A scene in which Katie breaks down in a food bank is but one of several small, shattering masterpieces that compose “I, Daniel Blake,” which brims with spirit, sympathy and candor as it tackles the catastrophic displacement brought on by economic and technological change.

As we’ve seen in the year since “I, Daniel Blake” premiered at Cannes, those changes have only become more pronounced, and consequential. Loach and Laverty don’t necessarily point out anything new in their film, which, in the end, succumbs to melodramatic stagecraft that detracts from the crystalline simplicity and clarity came before. But they have much to teach us, simply by lifting up resilience and compassion, and the inherent grace that lies in listening and responding to one another’s deepest needs.

“I, Daniel Blake” is about human value: disposable and abstract in one context; eternal, inviolable and sacred in another. They might underline the point a bit too thickly, but Loach and Laverty count on their audience to discern the difference, and to act accordingly.

I DANIEL BLAKE

I DANIEL BLAKE PLAN 

Explain how economic contexts shape independent films. Refer to I, Daniel Blake to support your points. ( 15 marks ) 30minutes 

P - Funding                       E - Example from production    E - Explain points                  T- Relevant 

     BBC/BFI                            Marketing                                  Link to text on audience        media 

     Marketing                           Text                                           Develop your point                Theories 

     Production 

     Director 

     Genre 

     Narrative 

     Audience expectations 

     Production value 

show

 

A mockumentary (a portmanteau of mock and documentary) or docucomedy is a type of movie or television show depicting fictional events but presented as a documentary.

Modern Family is an American television mockumentary family sitcom created by Christopher Lloyd and Steven Levitan for the American Broadcasting Company. First aired on September 23, 2009, the show follows the lives of Jay Pritchett and his family, all of whom live in suburban Los Angeles. Pritchett's family includes his second wife, their son and his stepson, as well as his two adult children and their husbands and children.

Christopher Lloyd and Steven Levitan conceived the series while sharing stories of their own "modern families". Modern Family employs an ensemble cast. The series is presented in mockumentary style, with the characters frequently breaking the fourth wall. 

my show would be a mockamentuary , of how the youth and adults of the working class live , this would be made on popular stereotypes that people think of the working class and use the fourth wall so they speak to the audience . 

What I will Need : 

* 4-6 Persons 

*a setting , possibly a park 

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I Daniel Blake 

Who is Daniel Blake - Widower Daniel Blake, a 59-year-old joiner from Newcastle, has had a heart attack. Though his cardiologist has not allowed him to return to work, Daniel is deemed fit to do so after a work capability assessment and denied employment and support allowance. He is frustrated to learn that his doctor was not contacted about the decision, and applies for an appeal, a process he finds difficult because he must complete forms online and is not computer literate.

Daniel befriends single mother Katie after she is sanctioned for arriving late for a Job-centre appointment. Katie and her children have just moved to Newcastle from a London homeless shelter, as there is no affordable accommodation in London. Daniel helps the family by repairing objects, teaching them how to heat rooms without electricity, and crafting wooden toys for the children.

During a visit to a food bank, Katie is overcome by hunger and breaks down. After she is caught shoplifting at a supermarket, a security guard offers her work as a prostitute. Daniel surprises her at the brothel, where he begs her to give up the job, but she tearfully insists she has no other way to feed her children.

As a condition for receiving jobseeker's allowance, Daniel must keep looking for work. He refuses a job at a garden centre because his doctor will not allow him to work yet. When Daniel's work coach tells him he must work harder to find a job or be sanctioned, Daniel spraypaints "I, Daniel Blake, demand my appeal date before I starve" on the building. He earns the support of passersby, including other benefits claimants, but is arrested and cautioned by the police. Daniel sells most of his belongings and becomes withdrawn.

On the day of Daniel's appeal, Katie accompanies him to court. A welfare adviser tells Daniel that his case looks sound. On glimpsing the judge and doctor who will decide his case, Daniel becomes anxious and visits the lavatory, where he suffers a heart attack and dies. At his public health funeral, Katie reads the eulogy, including the speech Daniel had intended to read at his appeal. The speech describes his feelings about how the welfare system failed him by treating him like a dog instead of a man proud to have paid his dues to society. 

The director of "I Daniel Blake" -

Kenneth Charles Loach (born 17 June 1936) is an English filmmaker. His socially critical directing style and socialist ideals are evident in his film treatment of social issues such as poverty (Poor Cow, 1967), homelessness (Cathy Come Home, 1966), and labour rights (Riff-Raff, 1991, and The Navigators, 2001).

Loach's film Kes (1969) was voted the seventh greatest British film of the 20th century in a poll by the British Film Institute. Two of his films, The Wind That Shakes the Barley (2006) and I, Daniel Blake (2016), received the Palme d'Or at the Cannes Film Festival, making him the ninth filmmaker to win the award twice.

Loach, a social campaigner for most of his career, believes the current criteria for claiming benefits in the UK are "a Kafka-esque, Catch-22 situation designed to frustrate and humiliate the claimant to such an extent that they drop out of the system and stop pursuing their right to ask for support if necessary"

Stars of " I Daniel Blake" -

• Dave Johns as Daniel Blake
• Hayley Squires as Katie Morgan
• Briana Shann as Daisy Morgan
• Dylan McKiernan as Dylan Morgan
• Kate Rutter as Ann
• Sharon Percy as Sheila
• Kema Sikazwe as China
• Steven Richens as Piper
• Gavin Webster as Joe
• Calum Cunningham as Job Seeker
• Mick Laffey as Welfare Benefits Advisor 

   

single series serials

Straight Outta Compton

Cast :

• O'Shea Jackson Jr. as N.W.A member O'Shea "Ice Cube" Jackson
• Jason Mitchell as N.W.A member Eric "Eazy-E" Wright
• Corey Hawkins as N.W.A member Andre "Dr. Dre" Young
• Aldis Hodge as N.W.A member Lorenzo "MC Ren" Patterson
• Neil Brown Jr. as N.W.A member Antoine "DJ Yella" Carraby
• Paul Giamatti as N.W.A's manager Jerry Heller
• Marlon Yates Jr. as N.W.A collaborator and Ruthless/Death Row Records artist Tracy "The D.O.C." Curry
• Alexandra Shipp as Ice Cube's wife Kimberly Woodruff
• Carra Patterson as Eazy-E's wife Tomica Woods-Wright
• Corey Reynolds as Alonzo Williams, club owner and member of Dr. Dre and DJ Yella's pre-N.W.A group World Class Wreckin' Cru
• Tate Ellington as Priority Records head Bryan Turner
• Angela Elayne Gibbs as Ice Cube's mother Doris Jackson
• Bruce Beatty as Ice Cube's father Hosea Jackson
• Lisa Renee Pitts as Dr. Dre's mother Verna Young
• Keith Stanfield as Death Row Records artist Calvin "Snoop Dogg" Broadus
• R. Marcos Taylor (credited as R. Marcus Taylor) as Death Row Records co-founder and CEO Marion "Suge" Knight
• Sheldon A. Smith as Death Row Records artist "Warren G" Griffin III 

Production :