Ill Manors Review Table

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film Director:

Ben Drew is the films director

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Main stars:

The main star who is recognised from other film productions is Riz ahmed. Who starred in Four Lions. Also, Ed Sherin. Lee allen known for the film production 'Run'

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Plot-

The film explorers the live styles of 4 drug dealers and a user. Also, explores the lives of teenagers in the hoods. Chris, a drug lord, gets his sister shot and he makes it his mission to find the murder, to avenge his sister. Then goes on a mission to find who took the gun he killed the murders with.

characters-  The main charcters who have been starred in this film were as follows:

Main characters;

·         Ed Skrein(Ed)

·         Riz Ahmed (Aaron)

·         Anouska Mond (Michelle)

·         Natalie Press (Katya)

·         Nick Sagar (marcel)

·         Lee Allen (chris)

·         Keith Coggins (Kirby)

·         Jo Hartley (carol)

·         Neil Large (Terry)

·         Lee Whitelock (vince)

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  Genre: 

  Crime and Drama 

   For example; the actor 'Ed' makes money from forcing a lady to have sex with many different fish bar owners. Also, he contributes to selling drugs and selling babies to bar owners. In addition, girls going school, wanting to try out drugs and a mother leaving her baby on a train, to avoid any chances of the baby getting hurt. This are few examples which proves this film has successfully made their production fit perfectly to their genre

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   Sound Track- 
   This films soundtrack was from the famous musician 'Plan B'. He created a rap song just for the film as it has huge link. 
  

Ill Manors Film Review

Ill Manors Film Review

Ill Manors was released in 6th of June 2012, in the UK. This film follows the typical London films genre, Crime and Drama. These genres have been perfectly portrayed in the film production, as it covers many crime scenes as well as lots of drama. For example; the actor 'Ed' makes money from forcing a lady to have sex with many different fish bar owners. Also, he contributes to selling drugs and selling babies to bar owners. In addition, girls going school, wanting to try out drugs and a mother leaving her baby on a train, to avoid any chances of the baby getting hurt. This are few examples which proves this film has successfully made their production fit perfectly to their genre. This film was filmed in England, London, Manor Park. The films plot fits perfectly with the filming location. This film explores the lives of 4 drug dealers, 2 users and 2 prostitutes. Explorers the typical life style of people living in the hoods, so filming it in London street would give the viewers a strong understanding. Linking to that particular idea, i see this film as being stereotypical. This is because in the media black teenagers are shown to be violent and main suspects to most street crimes. In this film the black teenagers are portrayed in the same way. For example; in the film we see a black kid persuading a kid to fight, then we see black kid beating up another kid. Also, we see Chris, one of the drug lords of the area, killing people. These are all things which supports the typical stereotypes of black people. In the film trailer it uses highly rated scenes from the final film production. This is most important and effective in film trailer, this is because majority of the trailer is about certain clips extracted from the film itself. The use of highly rated scenes in fil trailer is so that it persuades the audience to watch it. It is a common way to appeal to their audience from the start. For example; at ' 1:30' of the clip we see a short clip of the main protagonist holding a gun, this immediately creates tension and excitement within the audience because they're curious of what might happen next. Also, that exact shot is effective because in the final film production the main protagonist is only holding the gun at a mirror pretending to shoot someone and the audience wouldn't know that until they watch the film. The target audience for Ill Manors is 15 plus, follows the genres of Crime and Drama. We can note that watching this trailer allows you to immediately pick up that its aimed at ages of 15 plus. This is because there's use of violent scenes, prostitutes and plenty foul language. I personally see this trailer as a quick montage of a typical teenager living in the hoods and so therefore this appeals to them very much. Linking to this point is that they'll understand as they'll have a lot to relate to. Furthermore, this brings to surface the idea of stereotype of black teenagers. As shown evident in this trailer, we witness black teenagers holding guns, selling drugs and fighting. However, 'Ed' isn't shown as positive character. In the film trailer we witness 'Ed' taking part in drugs and holding gun but in the actual film 'Ed' puts his life forward for a baby. This is both emotional and a positive impact but that wasn't shown in the film trailer. The film trailer doesn't fully explain the films narrative and i think that what's most effective about trailers, they're not meant to give away the whole narrative. But from this trailer I think audience would understand what film evolves around. The genre of the film is Crime and Drama and this has become clear through the trailer. For example; we see many shots of people cutting up drug bags, shots of people with guns and shots of violence and this all links mainly to the genre of crime. Also, there are shots of people arguing and trying to come an agreement, there are shots of ladies running and this links mainly to the genre of drama. So yes, I think the selected film genres have been portrayed effectively in the film trailer.

Learner Response

Grade: D

Feed-back: 

WWW: Excellent use of points and there many things which shows you have a rough understanding of analysing the clips. 

EBI: However, you need to link you answers highly to the question. You need to talk about the use of media terminology and equilibrium and disequilibrium. 


Learner response

In this video we can see many things leading up to car crash. In terms of Mise-en-scene, high key lighting is used to make everything too look appealing for the audience. Also, once again there’s a great use of different bright colours to create excitement and fit perfectly to the theme of family as well as crash.

Furthermore, it makes it seem a lot like a theatre act, with lots of movements and actions going on. Also, they are in like a living room of their home, so the location fits well with the chosen narrative. In addition, there was a great use of props. The father and mother were dressed casually like typical parents. The daughter, however, is dressed as a fairy, with pink wings. Also, when the father dropped there were many things such as glitter and toys which flew into the air from the table.

n  As evident in the video, it shows a car crash scenario, where a father is in the car, perhaps distracted by his family and not wearing a seat belt leading him to a crash. To start of with, I personally think the music is classical music, which is calm and gentle. This can be illustrated that it’s both parrell and contrapuntal. This is because its happy and calm at the beginning of the video but closing into the car crash scene the father looks upset and angry. It shows the mother and daughter crying, therefore the classical music doesn’t fit perfectly to what’s happening, and hence it’s contrapuntal.

n  Furthermore, I think that even though it’s a car crash scenes, the video still shows clear evidence of great family values. For example; they are all sitting down together at home, enjoying themselves and not many familieshave that sort of connection. Linking to this, the video has a good and exciting narrative. Due to the change in emotions we witness that creates tension.