For my AS production me and my group created a film opening with an 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 named Damien, who is tall and muscular with broad shoulders, would be the stereotypical hero, as he struggles to find his path between what’s right and wrong. Damien, gets into a lot of gang activities and struggles to find his identity as his not sure on what he wants in life, therefore, he somewhat subverts to the stereotypical hero, as he struggles to find his collective identity and subculture.
Damien is represented as a ‘Ghetto youth’ or ‘thug’ through the way he is dressed with the dark hoody, blacked out hat, tracksuit bottoms and trainers, we made him the stereotypical urban character. We used character examples from films such as Kidulthood and 4.3.2.1 to make our main character Damien. However, near the end of the film Damien would transform into a young smart man, which represents Damien in a smart and sophisticated youth, which therefore, would represent youth positively.
The mise-en-scene is a stereotypical representation of a lower class area in London with the council estates, the dark alley ways, and congested roads. The dark lighting around the area makes it more enigmatic and creates tension when Damien walks past the alley way. The cold, gloomy and dusking weather creates enigma and keeps the target audience interested and engaged.
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.
Our main character conforms to the genre of the film; he would be a positive representation towards youth as he chooses the right path at the end of the film, therefore, he subverts to the youth stereotypes, as Damien is a well-educated youth that lives in a rough area in South London and has many influences around him which can lead him going into the wrong path into drugs, violence, gangs etc...It shows Damien’s struggle to keep out of gangs and crime, this would conform to the stereotypical urban films where the main character struggles and tries to prevent from the influences of their environment. For example, in Kidulthood the main character Trevor struggles to find his identity and does many things through the influences of others and though the fear of rejection. Also with Rebel without a Cause, James Dean’s character struggles to find his identity and at the end takes the right path which shows a positive representation towards youth as it shows that they just need guidance.
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