This sequence of lessons we are going to develop some of our ideas a little further. We have explored some of the ideas of veracity and verisimilitude of the fictionalised reality of 'based on a true story' and seen that our understanding is very much from one perspective: Aileen Wurnous.
The film One Mile Away is a C4 documentary which charts the attempts of Shabba and Flash over a period of a year to find a truce between two warring Birmingham gangs - the Johnsons and the Burger Boys.
The story of the film begins with the film 1 Day which was made in 2008. the film was a crowd funded Kick Starter fictional narrative of gangs and drug deals in the city. The film maker was contacted in 2010 by Shabba one of the gang members of the Johnsons to see if she could use her contacts with the Burger Boys from the filming to broker a peace deal between the two gangs.
From the start, the subjects of the film are not treated as wholly good. Shabba openly admits that he would rather kill a policeman than a rival ganger. To get the filming they need they enlist the help of Zilla who has served eight years for attempting to shoot two police-officers. In this sense, the documentary tells a different kind of 'truth' to Monster.
TASK:
[1] Compare the poster products for the two films:
Do the posters represent differences in the products [fictional film; documentary film]? How is this done?
Are different audiences targeted by these products - How is this represented?
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