Kidulthood

Kidulthood

Kidulthood is a teenage drama.  In the
beginning of the clip we first focus on a bunch of boys playing football; the
camera only focuses on their feet and the ball. This scene is repeated many
times it’s played fast when the music is fast and slows down when the music
slows down ,so it is parallel. We flash from this shot to groups of people
around the school having their own little conversations, but we can’t hear some
of the dialogue being exchanged. This make the dialogue we hear clearly stands
out more. The main dialogue that was said was “do you want to come to my party?”
which is repeated several times (not these exact words all the time, but they
are always party related. This makes the audience assume that the party is very
significant to the film. Although the characters don’t talk much we can already
make assumptions about their characters through their body language e.g. the
character Sam is seen looking around frantically as if he is looking out for
teachers or a form of authority, which tells us he’s doing something he isn’t
meant to be doing. The audience can assume he is the “bad boy of the school”.
Although the characters are all wearing school uniform we can still make
assumptions about the school as a whole or the individual. E.g We can stereotypically
think the school is poor academically because they  all speak slang a lot; they all have their
top buttons undone ,the boys playing football don’t care about the fact that their
feet is drenched in mud. The school lacks discipline and the student’s lacks
morals. We are also shown shots of a character building something and toying
around with it. We see and hear every little detail, but we don’t see the whole
of the object that he’s making, which makes it a mystery. This is because now
the audience want to know what it is? Why he isn’t outside with friends? and
Why it is so significant. I like this opening because it uses the audience’s stereotypes
which allow us to gather a lot of information without them actually spelling it
out to them. Already we start saying she’s the geek, he’s the rude boy etc.  The fact that it’s set in a school allows us to associate ourselves with characters in the film.