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Genre 

• Real-life characters and situations
• Trailers suggests character development, where there is a strong , conventional story line
• Close up shots of characters suggests the dramatic feel
• The faster cuts between shots shows the growing anger and frustration with the system 
• The woman with the children in the trailer subverts the typical thoughts associated with young people without a job, as it presents her as trying
• The ideology is that the benefit system is unfair
• The mise-en-scene creates a bleak and dull atmosphere to show this is realistic and not a fantasy. It shows reality to be depressing.
• Lacks product placement so we can tell the film is low budget

Ken Loach

• 83 year old director, has a socially critical directing style and socialist ideals which are evident in the way this film treats social issues, such as poverty, homelessness and rights
• He's directed 35 films, with the first being the Poor Cow in 1967
• He uses a naturalistic and social realist directing style and his films commonly focus on the British working class
• He was the auteur of the film (author)
• He doesn't like the big film industries
• 'Super hero films, I just find them boring. They're made as commodities.' He refers to them as being like 'burgers' and are a 'cynical exercise' 
• Independent socialist realist film 

What is the regulatory framework in the UK?

• A public organisation or government
• The BBFC , organisation not run by government
• They reduce the amount of harmful content someone can see
• They hire lots of specialised professionals who analyse the movie and together they decide on an age rating
• Rating a film too high can ruin the films chances for success.
• Digital technology has completely undone the BBFC
• The advantages are; provides guidance for parents, protects the public from harmful content
• Disadvantages; method of censorship is ineffective because, due to the internet revolution
• The BBFC is subjective, not everyone holds the same beliefs.
• The film industry is regulated by the BBFC and is responsible for classifying films which have a cinematic or DVD release
• I, Daniel Blake received a 15 age certificate because of mild violence, swearing and adult imagery and real issue such as poverty.
• The trailer was rated a U

Funding and commercial nature of the film and how it was recieved

• There is no quoted budget to be found online, but they did save 150,000. It was also funded by the government and national lottery who gave them a 100,000 grant
• Box office, 15.8 million. Cumulative gross- 15.7 million
• There are not any famous actors who may bring a mass audience
• Because the film has a smaller market, the people who this is aimed at will feel stronger towards the message and be more supportive of it.
• Ken Loach made the film to not have a large profit, but to have a large social impact.
• Jeremy Corbyn spoke about the film told Theresa May to watch 'I, Daniel Blake.'
• It was taken seriously in its representation
• New York Times said 'What makes the film bearable' is how a working class person is portrayed in a sympathetic way.
• Compared to works by Dickens and Orwell, who are known for their critical, yet fictional approach to spreading awareness for these things.

What is the welfare system?

• Jeremy Corbyn told Theresa May to introduce a new system based off of the ideologies represented within I, Daniel Blake. He felt as if the film represented the broken ways of the benefit system
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