22: Initial Ideas

The film we have chosen to do is based on youth drama,
We have chosen to start the film off with the introduction of the scene, through the local areas from shops to estate to reinforce our urban hood based youth drama, such as the graffti throught the local estates. From then on there is the introduction of the characters and to start off with is the main character who infact has a dream to make it successful through a professional football career but is dragged into the gang and violent culture of his town. The main character then involves with his friends whereby they all mess about and enjoy themselves when they see another group of youths who arent from his part of town as these youths slowly approach there seems to be a sense of tension amongt themselves and both gangs start approaching closer to each other. The main character is then by one of his friends is told to "leave it" and carry on with themselves. The main character pays no attention and nods to let them know to keep walking. Dialouge of both gangs increases and becomes more and more violent and agressive as they keep walking the camera starts to fade away..

We have chosen to go for a title sequence which is stylised, we have inteneded to keep the tite over the action as it will help support our theme, as for example having an animated title sequence would not be appropriate as it will be too bold and stand out as childish, by having a stylised title sequence which goes over the action would show a sense of coldness as the title will be black and in a simple font to match colours of the film, this will reinforce a sleek image on the viewers.

Kidulthood would be a great example of a title sequence which has influenced us to use the dark theme. As thier omnious black and white title sequence is quick and over the action to also show the dark and cloudy theme which has given the audience a quick idea that the theme of the film is going to be over a urban gang lifestyle. Green St Hooligans, Adulthood, The Guvnors would be typical films which have influenced us to go for an authentic youth drama as it preserves the urban lifetyle of youths throught differnt timescale and shows the typical life of an "estate boy" in the ends of London. We intend to conform the opening as we understand that from watching the films there would not be a reason why we should go against it as it shows the typical lifestyle of gang culture and hood, we also think that it will involve much more action and presents the name of youth drama as theyre most active and like to be in the action and in the centre of everything.