Ill Manors Title Sequence Analysis
The sequence begins
with a close-up of a cigarette being lit, and then we see the face of a young
man who proceeds to smoke the cigarette. The cigarette could be iconic of
negative behaviour and bad habits, which is shown throughout the film with even
more extreme drug taking, cigarettes can also be associated with leading too
more serious drugs. We can then hear a diegetic sound of a woman shouting on TV in which she is speaking of how
parents influence children, which may hint too idea in the film, for example,
the main characters may come from an unstable home which leads too problems
later on in life. We can then see a young boy talking, and he talks of foster
care, whilst the young boy smoking is still watching, which again links too
what the woman was shouting about on the television about negative backgrounds
and influence. Therefore, these first few scenes have set a context for the audience
with the use of iconography and diegetic sound; the film will contain aspects
of drugs and be based on people who have had an unstable upbringing. Also,
people of several ethnicities are shown and so we know it will be set in a
multi-cultural society.
We then hear the narrator, the voice of a famous British
rapper Plan B, talking poetically whilst we can see the scene of the
establishing shot. This shot is of an urban landscape which is sped up to show
the movement of cars, lights and the sunset. This shot gives us more context
and the kind of place where the film will take place. The urban buildings may
represent run-down and poor areas, which also links to council estates where
the lower class may live. The narrator uses sentences like ‘you’re in for a
harrowing ride’, preparing the audience for a very real and gritty film which
fits in well with the genre, a crime drama.
The soundtrack then starts and the title of the film
appears. In the scene is an urban building in which time moves quickly and it
becomes dark. The rest of the scenes in the title sequence are sped up. We can
then see a man sorting a white powdered drug which we can assume is too sell.
Again, we are being given the idea of the use and selling of illegal drugs. It
then cuts to a man talking on the phone and then back to the other man who
talks on the phone, showing a conversation between the two. Maybe they’re both
working together and this is a main idea in the film. It then cuts to urban
buildings and motorways, again setting the context and reinforcing the idea of
negative background and run down areas. Then it cuts to someone’s home where
drugs are being handled with again and people being threatened with guns, this
shows the crime-filled lifestyle of the characters within the film. The lyrics
of the soundtrack also fit well with the sequence ‘drugs rule everything around
me’. It then continues with various scenes of urban buildings and the movement
of criminal people until it cuts back to another drug house. This puts emphasis
on the iconography of drugs in the film and how they become very significant to
the characters’ lives. There is then scenes of many mobile phones and then
close ups of these and the sim cards which can be associated with drug dealers
and their wariness of being caught, this is also played on with the lyrics in
the soundtrack ‘pay as you go so the feds don’t bug it’. There is then more
scenes of mobile phones and brutal drug use, like the woman using a needle. The
audience are then put in the position of the moving cars, as if they are being
taken somewhere, maybe drug users are going to meet their dealers. The
sequences ends with various people of all backgrounds picking up drugs,
emphasising that drug use is a widespread problem, another key idea in the
film.
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