BFI - British Film Institute Outing (Secondary Sources Harvard Referencing)

Hello!!!

Today my class and I went on a outing to the BFI, which is located on southbank. We had the chance to visit the BFI Mediatheque, and watch a film called 'Being 17' which was directed by the renowned french director, Andre Techine.

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BFI Mediatheque

The Mediatheque is one of the UK's acclaimed television and film research facilities where you can watch amazingly put together pieces of British film history. I wanted to find secondary sources that would inspire my brixton promotional film.

One film I watched was called Brixton Black (1984)

Brixton Black talks about a young black boy that gets into trouble with the law because of the racism in his school gets him kicked out. He feels like there is nothing for him in Brixton and he goes out and starts trouble to fill his time. I think this source is useful to my work because I can talk about the changes Brixton has made in diversity and how there is a black community that thrives there.

Th other notable film I watched was called Windrush (1998)

This film is about how Britain was exclusively white English and European until the Windrush brought over many people of colour. The Windrush arrived on the 21st of June 1948. The British people promised the west indians jobs and housing so they came over to support their families back home. The film also talks about how Britain was thought as a higher power and saviour in the Caribbean. Many Caribbeans even served in the British army because of their English pride. I think this source will be useful to my work because as we are filming in Windrush Square, we can base our promotional film on the windrush to attract tourism and tell the history of how brixton came to be a metropolitan town.

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Being 17

I had the amazing opportunity to watch Being 17 in the BFI Screening Room. The synopsis in short - Two boys called Damien and Tom are teenagers living in the french mountains, and they also attend the same school. They dislike one another and often fight, but when Tom's adoptive mother grows ill, Damien's mother invites Tom to live with her and Damien. Living in the same house makes the two boys discover why they feel so passionately angry around each other, and they reveal their true feelings.

(Spoiler. They end up in bed together.)

My Review of the Film will be posted separate to this post onto my blog.