Kiddulthood

Assignment 6; Simple Film Narrative Structure Analysis.

Michaela Ives-Kingshott.

Kidulthood.• Teenagers from a deprived area of west London attend a

run down state school which is riddled with violence and bullying.

• A young teenage girl commits suicide due to bullying.

• There is violence and conflict throughout the movie due to revenge attacks, gang crime and drug issues.

• The teenage girl finds herself pregnant

• She contemplates aborting her unborn child.

• She decides to keep to baby through guilt of not helping the girl who committed suicide.

• Her babies father is later tragically killed at a party in a revenge attack , by Sam, who the pregnant girl had previously engaged In a sexual relationship with.

Has the institution created a text with a conventional (stereotypical) narrative structure?

a) Yes, the institution has created a text with a stereotypical narrative structure of a beginning, middle and end.

b) The film narrative is implicit as you can tell from the amount of violence and conflict involved in the movie that there is not going to be a happy, peaceful ending, something is bound to have gone wrong.

Introduction to characters.

Sam is presented as the villain.

We are shown what caused the teenage girl to commit suicide.

Violence and conflict between main characters.

Friendship breakups.

Young girl finds herself pregnant, considers abortion, later changes her mind.

The pregnant teenage girl gets back with her babies father.

The father is later attacked at a party and beaten to death with a baseball bat by Sam in a revenge attack.

Implicit Narrative Reason? Evidence.

Reason 1; young pregnant teenage girl turning to alcohol as a way of coping with her issues.

Reason 2; group of boys turning to violence to get revenge on there bully Sam.

Reason 3; presence of gun crime in the movie.

Reason 4; violent end, involving conflict using weapons.

Conventional Narrative.

The girls father looks

concerned.

At the beginning of the movie we are introduced to the characters and are given an insight into the

purpose of their character.

Other characters look uncomfortable and intimidated around him.

We are shown that Sam is going to be the villain of the movie.

The young girl who later commits suicide is seen bruised and cut.

The girls father looks concerned.

Act one.

In the middle of the movie we are shown some of the main plots are events that take place

including violence and conflict and teen pregnancy.

The teenage girl finds herself pregnant and separated from the babies father.

The man is tied up and tortured after ripping off Trover’s drug dealer uncle.

Act two.

At the end of the movie we are shown the climax of the movie, this involves the murder of Trover using extreme violence.

The roles reserve and now its Sam who looks scared and intimidated by Moony.

Moony one of the characters Sam used to bully and intimidate turns on him, and threatens him with a weapon.

Friends stand and watch, helpless to do anything to help or stop the attack.

Ending scene where Trover is beaten to death in front of his pregnant girlfriend and friends.

Act three.

Why have the film makers done this?

• The film makers have used a Narrative structure to make the movie more understandable and easier to comprehend by the audience.

• The producer has used this Narrative as the movie runs in a sequence of what triggered the ending and what happens in-between the start and the end, therefore using a stereotypical Narrative sequence whilst producing the movie makes more sense.

What impact does this have on the audience?

Causes an aspect of satisfaction as it uses a set up the audience will be familiar and comfortable

with.

Makes it easier for the audience to understand, it

wouldn’t cause them to feel confused.

A sense of understanding due to chronological order.

What audience expectations have they established or challenged by using this structure?

Movie doesn’t end happily.

Friendships break up due to conflict.

Girl decides to go through with having

her baby.

Sam later becomes to victim of bullying

from the people he bullied.

Movie is mainstream, no difference in

structure.

Flashbacks take place at the end of the

movie.