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Kidulthood

Sub-genre: youth-drama
List of title credits:
Main cast
Directed and produced by Menhaj Huda
Produced by George Isaac
Written by Noel Clarke
Executive producers: Pierre Mascolo and Marco Costa

This film has titles on a black screen and moving images, it has moving images for the main cast and white writing on a black screen for all the other information that's on the credits.

The producer is more independent production as kidulthood was a low budget film.

The plot is a day in the life of a group of teenagers living in west London. During the film you see how some teenagers maybe pressured to do things that they may not want to do, a character called trife is being tempted into gang lifestyles by his uncle who is making him do certain illegal tasks.

Trife is being pressured into a gang lifestyle, but also has other things to worry about, like his enemy sleeping with his ex girlfriend.
Jay, trife's best friend is more of the mouthy one and isn't shy to talk to girls and voice his opinions.
Mooney is best friends with Trife and Jay, he sometimes feels pressured into doing stuff that he doesn't feel comfortable in, but follows his two best friends because he doesn't want to be alone.
Sam is the enemy of Trife and is a gang leader and a bully, and later on in the film he wants his revenge on the 3 best friends who hurt him in his house.
Alisa is the ex of Trife and has to come to grips with the fact that she is pregnant and she wants to make up with her ex because the baby is his and she still loves him.
Becky is best friends with Alisa and she is more of the rebel one who does sexual things to get what she wants.

In this film there are mostly two social groups, friendship  groups and gangs.

The teens interact with adults as we would expect them to, Alisa has that mother and daughter relationship with her mum as normal and Trife and his mum has a normal relationship. The only thing that maybe different is the relationship of Trife and his uncle, they seem more like a boss and an employee more than uncle and nephew.

Camera: We see more group shots because its a youth drama, there are lots of scenes where there is friends interacting with each other. There is also mid shots to show the audience the characters body gestures.

Editing: The film is mostly fast paced with the main cast getting most of the screen time. Also there is continuity editing throughout.

Sound: The soundtrack is urban music, It links because the film is urban too and both media products link to youth drama. There is non-diegetic sounds like dialogue and the atmosphere sounds such as cars driving and wind blowing.

Mise en scene: The lighting is light and dark in some aspects of the film. In dark lighting it reflect the characters dark moments in their life.
The key props that you see is a gun, the characters clothing which shows the audience what sort of person the character is.

I liked the film because it was a good representation of the youth culture and had me engaged of what was happening and what may happen later on in the film.