Kidulthood
Exercise_02
Analyse the clip of KIdulthood
Consider: Costume, Lighting, Props,
Language, Camera work, Sound.
The clip we watched started off with a bunch of kids in
school playing football on a muddy field, this shows that most of the kids
there are not a high class because they are not too bothered about the clothes
they wear getting dirty. Once this scene is finished it skips to a scene with
of boys talking to some girls asking if they wanted to go to his party. This
shows that he is a working clkais party shows he is
trying to fit in with them and wants to be a part of them to prevent him from
being bullied himself.
When break is over, a teacher comes out to get the kids back
in class, but fails to do so. This is because of the way the students are that
the teachers have no control over them. the way the kids dress and behave threatens the teachers which makes them have less control around them.
In this clip the language used by the kids is considered 'fake'. The reason for this is because they're not speaking proper English, they're using slang, but this slang spoken is called Jafaican, a mix between Jamaican and African accent.
The scene where Katie gets beaten up has a lot of different camera angles. It starts off with a handheld shot (eye level) of her getting dragged in the class room, from then on there are a lot of different shots and it switches rather fast from one to another. POV is used a lot in this scene, from Katie's view looking at the two girls beating her up.
There is a lot of Hip hop/rap music in this film, mainly because its based on school pupils and their type of music at that age is that music. n
When deciding what genre to make this film as, its clear when watching it that its aimed at teenagers, since near enough every character is a teen in this film, why wouldn't it be aimed at teens. But the problem is and also a lot of critics has stated this, is that when teens watch this they may feel the need to copy their use of language and behaviour. Another sort of audience to this film may be people who would like to change what is happening, stuff like this film happens in many schools and there may be people studying this film to see if they can come up with a way to change this.
The clothing worn by the teens are all loose clothing to make them feel big. Even in school some of them aren't even wearing school uniform, and even when they do, they are not wearing full uniform, their tie's are half done, their shirts are out, this is just what any ordinary high school is like.
The cinematography in the start of this clip has a lot of jump cuts, the camera is in the same angle but at a different shot, this is maybe to get the audience sucked into it and to not lose concentration on the film .
-Ryan Schofield
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