Kidulthood is the first film that we decided to analyse the contents of.We chose the scene that features Sam killing Trevor (Trife) after an altercation at Sam’s house, which saw Sam’s mother getting injured in the process. This leads to the party where Trife is killed. One shot in this scene that helps to convey the message is the high camera angle of Sam standing over Trife and this gives a sense of fear and being powerless and our film is relevant to this because the friend in our film is trying to get the main character help him with something dangerous which could have an affect on his future if he does get involved.

Slow motion is used at the point when Sam attacks Trife with the baseball bat. This adds more effect to the storyline because the audience already knows what is about to happen but they want to see if they can be proved wrong. This links in with our film because even though we are not feature specific violent scenes like this, we want to give our audience an insight of what they would expect from these particular characters. This entire scene is relevant to our film because our film does have some aspects of violence in the film and it indicates how violence is a factor that affects urban youth a lot these days and how Kidulthood and our film portrays this. This scene that we chose to analyse is set at someone’s house where a party is being held. This adds more effect to the scene because it makes people wonder what the immediate impact will be after this violent scene and who is going to survive after this.

During this scene, Sam is shown to be wearing a hooded top, jeans and trainers whilst armed with a baseball bat. He is showcasing the negative connotations of his character through his demeanour, attitude and style of clothing because people going to parties would not wear hooded clothing or be carrying a baseball bat. This is relevant to our film because the friend in our film is a very violent person and wants to involve the main character in his problems and he, too, is wearing similar clothing to Sam throughout the film.