​AARON'S AS MEDIA

I considered the openning of this film  from 00:27 to 3:27.

This is my second film I chose to deconstruct the openning to, AdULTHOOD, it is the sequel to the film KiDULTHOOD.

The first shot we see is a 'snap-shot' of one of the characters faces, from the first film KiDULTHOOD, Jay. This shot is followed by a few other 'snap-shots' of other characters faces from the previous film (all the characters shown are also in AdULTHOOD). The shots are close ups on each of the characters and are not accompanied by any sound, this makes the audience really focus on the short videos they are seeing of each of the characters on the screen, this is supposedly to familiarise the audience with the characters of both films and ensure that viewers who have seen KiDULTHOOD know the story is continuing. After all the characters have been briefly cycled through, we begin seeing identical 'snap-shots' of a party and the characters at the party, still unaccompanied by any sound. Eventually we hear the sound of a baseball bat hitting one of the characters we have been shown, as we see him hit, beaten and killed by a hooded figure, we were not shown previously. This part of the opening is just to show the audeince how the previous film ended, as they are all shots taken from KiDULTHOOD.  When the last blow of baseball bat hits the head of Trevor (the camera, as we are seeing it through his eyes) the sound goes again, this could be to signify the death of Trevor. We then see the reaction of the hooded killer and Trevor's girlfriend Alisa. 

Then the screen fades to black and sentence 'six years later' appears on screen, accompanied by music, we later learn is diegetic sound as it is revealed the setting for this scene is at another party. Whilst 'six years later' is still on screen, blurred lights begin to appear and move around the screen, we soon find out, as the text fades away, that the camera is panning across a motorway full of traffic. The camera continues it's pan off of the motorway, over a council estate and onto a party, below an underpass, where we hear the first words of the film and song being performed by London MC 'Ghetts', at the party. We then see many close up shots, accompanying one-another on the screen of young people at the party dancing, kissing, performing sexual acts, and taking drugs. Everyone at the party appears to the audience to be doing things the same as each other and the same time, creating a form of group and togetherness atmosphere. Then we cut to a shot of a girl walking through the crowd, past a boy who attempts to talk to her, although she ignores him and joins her boyfriend and his group of friends, who see the boy wink at his girlfriend and so warns him off and sends him on his way. The atmosphere then becomes a little more tense as we focus in on this smaller group within the party. The group then see a car pull-up just outside of the underpass and decide to go over and mug the driver, from the group's strong accents we can tell they're from London, and so can assume, similarly to Ill Manors, that AdULTHOOD is based in London.  

2 members of the group walk over to the car, one smashes the window and grabs the man in the car as the other goes round to the passenger side and jumps in. The 2 boys are in the middle of assaulting the man when a hand-gun falls out of one of the boy's trousers, which the man grabs, the boys then grab his arm and in a struggle the gun is fired, supposedly into the man's leg. The boys then run from the scene, down the street, comparing what they stole from the man. The screen then fades to black and the title 'AdULTHOOD' is displayed on the screen to conclude the opening.