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    The document analyzes the representation of teenagers in the UK film KiDULTHOOD. It summarizes that the film's trailer uses tense music, images of smoking, guns and partying to portray a youth-oriented lifestyle involving crime, violence, teen pregnancy and drug/alcohol abuse, reinforcing stereotypes of teenagers. It also notes the film shows teenagers wearing stereotypical clothing like hoodies and sports logos, and focuses on white and black youth who are commonly portrayed as trouble-makers. The document states producers have control over how people are represented in films and can shape biased or self-serving portrayals if audiences accept the dominant messages.

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    The document analyzes the representation of teenagers in the UK film KiDULTHOOD. It summarizes that the film's trailer uses tense music, images of smoking, guns and partying to portray a youth-oriented lifestyle involving crime, violence, teen pregnancy and drug/alcohol abuse, reinforcing stereotypes of teenagers. It also notes the film shows teenagers wearing stereotypical clothing like hoodies and sports logos, and focuses on white and black youth who are commonly portrayed as trouble-makers. The document states producers have control over how people are represented in films and can shape biased or self-serving portrayals if audiences accept the dominant messages.

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    The document analyzes the representation of teenagers in the UK film KiDULTHOOD. It summarizes that the film's trailer uses tense music, images of smoking, guns and partying to portray a youth-oriented lifestyle involving crime, violence, teen pregnancy and drug/alcohol abuse, reinforcing stereotypes of teenagers. It also notes the film shows teenagers wearing stereotypical clothing like hoodies and sports logos, and focuses on white and black youth who are commonly portrayed as trouble-makers. The document states producers have control over how people are represented in films and can shape biased or self-serving portrayals if audiences accept the dominant messages.

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    REPRESENTATIONS OF

    TEENAGERS

    UK Film
    KiDULTHOOD
     My main Focus is on the movie ‘KiDULTHOOD’ , I've briefly analysed the YouTube trailer (
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mdoKD4gTQ2c) and identified how teenagers are represented in this.
     I first notice this tense and eerie kind of music before any image is shown, this keeps the audience in
    suspense and focused for any images that could follow. Then you hear the diegetic sound and image of
    a DJ mixing, this immediately informs the audience of the genre by this hinted party lifestyle. This also
    ties in with the quick flashing close-ups of a girl smoking and a raised gun, the close-up focuses on
    these props which builds on this impression of a youth-orientated film. This brings me on to the sound in
    this trailer, a few other significant things i heard is rapping, screaming and slang. The screaming is
    associated with the violence shown in the trailer and rapping is a common genre of music targetted at
    the youth. From the script we here slang like ‘dizzy’, ‘blad’ and ‘bang you up’, so pretty much all of the
    sound and music fits in with this stereotypical teenage theme.
     The narrative also included stories like pregnancy, this teenage motherhood is currently an issue in
    society as young pregnancies are rising. Similarly the youth being involved in crime is also a huge
    problem in society like knife crime etc, there are many scenes of violence and illegal behaviour like
    stealing and fights which is emphasized by the props used like guns and bats which is used many times
    throughout the trailer. Also alcoholism , drug abuse and sex is highlighted in the trailer being
    accompanied by its props which is used as signifiers. This is reinforcing the stereotypes of teenagers
    today which have caused some moral panics in society today. However many argue about how real this
    impression of teenagers are.
     Stereotypically these teenagers can also be identified by their significant/common clothing. This is shown
    in the costume of the cast, some include chunky jewellery, hoodies, caps and sports logos. I also noticed
    how the cast is mainly, if not all white or black. These races are commonly shown and targetted to be the
    trouble-makers.
     From what ive noticed, representations are created through repeated impressions of stereotyped
    characters and this is formed with everything that goes with it like dialogue, costume, narratives etc.
    Audiences and Control
     From my analysis on KiDULTHOOD, i think the film can easily engage with a wide
    audience demographic , many teenagers may bond with the narrative and trailers
    shown and some may be angered by it, but either way it would attract them to watch it
    out of curiosity and interest. Also as teenagers are a huge critical debate in society and
    are constantly in the news, adults may also be interested as well as different races,
    males and females.
     Producers and Directors are in control of how someone is represented as they have
    the power to alter and form the characters and narratives, this could also be favoured
    by the Marxist theory as the bourgeoisie (in this context the directors and producers)
    are in control of everything and everyone that has a lower status. Therefore this
    representation could be bias and used to benefit themselves. This is if the audience is
    hegemonic, and from past examples most of the audiences, especially the youth are
    hegemonic and believe what they are being shown displaying the great power and
    control of the dominant group.

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