Representation; Kidulthood

In the opening of Kidulthood the representation of young people is negative. The scenes that they show of the teenagers are typically wearing hoodies and in gangs that are groups of 3 or more within the playground just as expected when doing a typical representation of teenagers. Most of the teenagers that are shown are either committing crimes such as smoking weed, drilling a gun and bullying within the school facility or participating in sexual activities or promoting their ‘wild’ party whilst their parents are out of town.

These are the common representation of teenagers within the uk and they have all been placed in this one scene at one time that are being shown It can be argued that this is a fair representation of young people but it has been highly exaggerated but at the same time it can be argued against that as some young people  within the uk have never even experienced anything like this in their lives.

For the year that it was produced I think that it is a pretty good example of verisimilitude. The mise-en-scene within the environment created a real feeling of verisimilitude. For example the type of camera shots that were used were camera shots that made us feel that we were within the set at the time, with the type of angle shots used as the camera was swiftly going across the set to one group of teens to another to create that realness of us being actually their as if we were in the playground watching them and also from the type of cuts that were used as they were playing football within the playground as they made it seem as if we were in the playground and had to actually watch out from the ball, as if they were playing football around us whilst we stood in the playground.