Analyse of Representation & Theories

For my AS production me and my group created a film opening with a urban genre. The synopsis of the film opening is about a teenager coming out of his estate and walking down, he approaches an alley way, where he sees two youths robbing/beating up another teenager, however, the main character walks off at first and then turns back into the alley. Our main character is a stereotypical hero as he didn't know whether to help or not. The mise-en-scene is a stereotypical representation of a lower class area in London with the council estates, the dark alley ways, congested roads etc...The appearance of our main character is based on an urban stereotype with the hoody,tracksuits etc... We used films like Kidulthood, 4.3.2.1, Fish tank as an example set for our film opening. Our main character conforms to the genre of the film. The target audience for our film was to be teenagers, as the type of genre would appeal to them more as it can reflect more to their lifestyles and stereotypes that they have. The representation of youth in our film would be part positive and part negative as we would have scenes where teenagers conform to their stereotypes by being 'thugs' and stealing etc... however, we would also have parts of the film where teenagers subvert from their stereotypes as they would be well educated and law abiding and helping other people.

'A text is like a tangled ball of threads which needs to be unraveled'. Roland Barthes enigma code links at the end of the film opening as we see our main character go back into the alley where someones getting beaten up. This would be a positive representation of teenagers and also would subvert to stereotypes as our main character is going to help the youth getting beaten up.
Propp's theory somewhat intertwines with our opening as we have our victim getting beaten up and our hero going back to help the victim. Throughout the film, Propp's functions would definitely come up as we based our film and genre on many examples such as 'Kidulthood', 'Adulthood', 'Fish Tank'. Within our examples Propp's functions where used.
Todorov's theory links in with our opening scene as the equilibrium was when out main character was walking and then the disequilibrium occurred towards the end when the main character went back to help the victim in the alley way. The resolution would of occurred when the victim is saved. In every film there is always an equilibrium, disequilibrium and resolution, as that is how the plot would go and also that makes the film interesting and would keep the audience engaged.

At the equilibrium the film would subvert and conform to the stereotypes of youths and then once it gets towards the disequilibrium the film would start to conform mainly to the stereotypes of youths, however, at the end towards the resolution the film would subvert to stereotypes of youths.