textual analysis

1. Kidulthood
Micro elements from mise-en-scene are at work in the extract, also editing is being
used. The social group that are being represented are students that are up to no
good and class and status us the key representative area that is being explored.
Editing helped explore this as there are fast transitions in the extract in between the
different groups of students to her their conversations and show how even though
they are all of different statuses it all links.
The specific technical elements that are being employed is high key lighting outside
and low key inside, colour design and costume.
These technical elements construct a representation as the lighting shows who is
going to be in trouble and also highlights their different statuses.
The arrangement of the lighting makes me feel uneasy as you feel like something bad
is going to happen because of the low key lighting.
The mise-en-scene address the issue of isolation because of the low key lighting
inside showing whoever is inside is isolated from the outside world and the costume
shoes the issues of the bullies and the innocent and it shows the neat and the
scruffy, this highlights the problems in school that the public may not be able to see
for example how in some schools there is a corrupt hierarchy.