Film trailer analysis-kidulthood
Being a teenager isn’t easy especially when you live on a
run-down council estate in west London like 15 year old Trife. He isn’t having
an easy time; he lives on a mixed income run down council estate in west London
and has recently discovered that he has got a young girl pregnant. The whole
story focuses on mainly these 2 characters and what is going on around them but
other characters are revealed also having their own problems.
Sam, he is the main antagonist of the film, we can see
this from what he does and says in this film trailer. He is older than many of
the other characters and is a big bully, he bully’s anyone who does something
to annoy or upset him, and he also has a very foul mouth. The film trailer is
only 2 minutes long but we see Sam hit, pinch, and kick and hit a few people,
also many of the words. You really don’t want to get on the wrong side of same.
Alisa, she is 15, a good girl deep down but she mixed
with the wrong type of people and she made some mistakes. Alisa is pregnant. When
she tells Trevor, the father he takes it badly and at one point he does not
believe that the baby is his as Sam is claiming he also slept with Alisa
although later we find out that this is false. We can see that Alisa mixed with
the wrong people as we see her and other girls her own age snorting coke. At one
point in the film we begin to think that is Becky actually a friend or not. We see
Alisa not well and Becky is not helping, she is being very nasty towards Alisa.
In this film trailer the music at the beginning is the
sort of music you would hear at a party, also in the first few seconds you hear
a young women screaming, like she is scared of something she has just seen. The sound effects would be non-diegetic as the
characters would be unable to hear the music and the screaming. The sound
relates to each other, often at parties there are people screaming as they are
having fun or if the party gets out of control. The sound fits into this film
trailer as the music fits the scene and the genre of the music fits the genre
of the film.
The edits from scene to scene are very quick but we can
tell that the location has changed especially when it goes from daylight to
darkness or inside a house to outside in the street. The transition from most
scenes to the next is mostly cut; this would have been used as it is quick and
simple, something that is needed for a film trailer to be affective.
The dialogue throughout the whole film trailer is common
west London slang, this fits as the film is wholly based around young people on
a west London estate. Also there are many bits of dialogue which is swearing,
something that is represented with young people and run down housing estates. I
believe that there is an element of generalisation in this film. When people
think of young people the associate it with run down housing estates, swearing,
rudeness, slang and illegal acts.
I believe that this film trailer is affective as the film
when it was released was a great success, the success in the film trailer would
have influenced whether the film would have been a success or not.
