The film I have chosen is Kidulthood; Kidulthood is a British film that was release in the year 2006. It was written by Noel Clarke and directed by Menhaj Huda who originally started of making Bangladeshi films. It’s a film where we follow 3 teenage boys and all of there are different and all have there own mini storys that string of the main story this is a good way to set out a drama as its more entertaining

The genre of the film kidulthood is a Drama/comedy but has slight anti social behavior, violence, sexual content & drug scenes within the film, the reason why this is a drama is because we follow the life of Trife (played by actor Aml Ameen) and his friends Mooney (played by actor Femi Oyeniran) & Jay (played by actor Adam Deacon) this film is also a comedy as it also has a funny side to it but keeps on track of a serious storyline

The iconography and conventions in this film are good as it shows real emotion behind the storyline. This film has one main story so its easy to understand that it’s a drama because of the way the film is set out, as it starts of not letting out to much information but the more u go into the film you start to understand it more and the reasons why there doing the things there doing.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1bZa2efcNqk&feature=related this is a scene from the 2006 film kidulthood, this is one of my favorite scenes because of the way its shot from the time 0:00 – 0:06 the camera has focused on a mother and child trough a mirror as Trife has a baby on the way but isn’t with his baby mother, it the focuses back out on to trife and show  mid shot of his emotions this is shot differently because normally films will do a close up shot of the face to show the emotions within the character, the lighting within this shot is well lit as you are able to see everything that’s going on within the shot of the film, the light is continuous and is the same shade throughout the whole scene. The scene desnt really have an awful lot of shots its kept basic and simple as there is no need for them to have loads of different shots within this scene

His film is non linear as it has flashbacks throughout the film this is a good way for a drama film as you get to find out what’s happened before and what the movie will not show in full detail it gives you the idea to how there life’s are, at the end of the film when trife is dying after being hit with a baseball bat in his stomach hi whole life flashes in front of him, all of the footage that he’s in within the film.

Overall this is one of my personal favorite and think that this is one of the best dram films to come out of the United Kingdom