The Inbetweeners

In today's lesson we started looking at another youth representation film called the inbetweeners. The film is about four young boys who travel around Australia supposedly having the time of their life. The film is full of youth  representation from crude humor to degrading each others parents, there is a lot of stereotypical male teenage humor used to represent the youth of today.

The film makes the representation of the young teenagers mostly about their crude humor about sex and women, the way they talk and joke about women and sex as an object and something that they don't value shows the lack  of maturity that young people are stereo typically see to posses.

Analyzing this film in terms of its representation includes looking at the language that they use. Terms such as "Banter" and "F*** off" show the level of immaturity you would expect from a group of teenagers. As these terms are used very early on in the film, it quickly shows the audience the type of characters that they are without having to progress through the story too much.

Fast Girls

Today we started watching the film "Fast Girls" Fast Girls is a 2011 British drama film directed by Regan Hall and written by Jay Basu, Noel Clarke and Roy Williams. The film follows the story of two women as they become professional sprinters and join the British relay team for a World Championship event.


The film aims to portray the difference in back grounds from London. The character Shania being from the poorer areas of London with troubled family backgrounds and Lisa being from a posh area in London having all her privileges that comes with money.


Theories such as Acland and Gramsci can be linked to the film as they both talk about how the youth is pictured being very rebellious and aggressive and quick to act rather than thinking about it. The film shows both Shania and Lisa arguing for the majority of the film and having 'teenage fallouts', however at the end we see a redemption of feelings between them as they seem to forgive each other and go on to win the big race. This showed the bit of resilience and maturity that the youth is seen to not hav and as a result are seen as constantly childish and unprofessional.

My Brother the Devil

Today we finished the film 'My Brother the Devil', and we started to analyse it and look at the stereotypes and qualities of  gang life. We looked at how Rash and his brother and how they were portrayed together and what the director wanted us to see between them. The stereotypes of the youth culture in this film are of the young people being thugs/criminals as a part of their everyday life. We saw the struggle that the younger brother had of trying to keep up with his older brother and looking up to him as a role model and someone to aspire to be. The film follows both brothers and the way they choose to go about their life, whilst unknowingly affecting the other ones life.

Gang life is portrayed as something to be desired as they can grant you protection and a sense of family. However the film shows its other side with lots of violence, friends losing friends and no rules of combat, making the gang life show for what it really is, scary and unsafe, especially when young people get dragged into it.

Wes Anderson

Today we looked at several film clips including Fantastic Mr Fox and The grand Budapest Hotel. We looked at formal composition used by Wes Anderson and how the different films used it to portray the characters and shift the audiences focus onto the point of focus. We also looked at how Wes uses ordering to set the importance of characters for the audience. For example in the Fantastic Mr fox clip, Wes introduces the farmers in order of how mean they are. Despite it not being really profound and clear to see, we analysed how Wes used the background and colors to express the level of power for each of the farmers.









The Grand Budapest Hotel

 Fantastic Mr fox

My brother the devil

In today's lesson we began watching the film 'My brother the devil' and began thinking about how the film represents the youth culture in Britain.

 The film is about a young man from a traditional Arab family who runs with a gang that rules the streets of Hackney, a particularly ethnically mixed neighborhood. Rashid's younger brother Mo, idolizes his brother who seems to be better than him in every way. The younger brother wants to follow in Rashid's footsteps into gang life, however Rashid doesn't want him to follow him, and wants him to stay in school and carry on with his studies. When Rashid forms a bind with Sayyid, an older man of similar background who is now  successful photographer, he is introduced to a world he never knew existed. But just as he wants out of his gang life, Mo decides he wants in, and starts doing drug runs behind Rashid's back.

We started thinking about the different characters and how they're representing gang life in London, and how difficult it is to get out of it once you get involved in gang life.
















 My brother the devil trailer