Individual Case Study

Adulthood (Follow up from the film Kidulthood)


Set in London six years after Sam (Noel Carke) killed Trife. After being confronted by a man, that Sam his not familiar with. Sam finds out someone is planning to hurt his family, including him. Sam attempts to find who wants to hurt him, and tries to stop the violence from continuing any further.



Adulthood has received many criticisms for promoting gun crime and gang crime rater than informing, however despite that Adulthood still manage to target their audience. In the opening weekend box office Adulthood made £1,203,319 this shows it managed to echo with its audience and not its critics.

Representation > Youth culture, Young audiences from deprived areas.

Sound: The sound used was specific to it's target audience. The O.S.T in the trailer was Bashy- an underground recording artist (from Kidulthod to Adulthood) theres also a lot of noise used from guns being fired, people being beaten up. All of these components used was all linked to the culture that is taking part within the outskirts of London.

Camera Shots- There are several counts of medium to close shots focusing specifically on the actors' facial expressions,and mise en scenes to allow as much action into a shot as possible within the trailer in order to allow the audience to get an insight on what the film has to offer