Write six PEE's on how locations are important in which you have studied?

Locations of a film is important because it reveals to the audiences to what the genre of the story could be. For instance, in Bullet Boy the opening scene was when we denote Ricky in a cell/prison, which immediately connotes to the audiences that the film is based on crime. The use of the prison location also helps the audiences to understand more about Rickey as a character, for example it connotes to the audiences that he commited some crime which represents that he is a deliquent.

There was a scene when there was a establishing shots of the estates and other tall buildings in Bullet Boy, this tells the audiences that it is based in a urbanized area.The purpose of this is to give a sense of realism and normality, this conforms to the conventions of a social realism film because the audience could relate to the film (uses of gratification: personal identity) on realism.

Location is important because it helps explore the themes and issues of the films, for instance in Bullet Boy, there was a scene where we denote Rickey's and Curtis bedroom. Within the bedroom, was a bunk bed and is covered in blue plain bed sheets. The idea of having a bunk bed connotes that they both share a cramped room, which signifies that they live in a small house (limited rooms)and the plain blue bed sheets signifies that they live in poverty because they don't have the excess money to buy a change of fancy bed sheets.

In the same scene, it explores the theme and issues of poverty, for example there was no source of electronic devices, such as a laptop or a computer in the room, this signifies poverty because having no computers or laptops means their is no access to internet, which in society is measured as being relatively poor. This connotes to the audiences that our main protagonist is represented as having struggle in life, financially, which conforms to the conventions of a social realism film because this allows the audiences to relate/identify similar issues that they struggle in life.

There is another scene which explores the theme and issues, for example in the scene when Rio and Curtis was in the park. The park is very spacious and bleak, which represents the theme boredom, which leads to crime. At the same time it conforms to the conventions of a thriller film because the park is isolated, which creates tension and it also makes the Curtis and Rio seem vulnerable in the environment, which also conforms to a thriller genre because children's are often represented as being a victim in a thriller film.