KIDULTHOOD

I watched roughly the first 5 minutes of the film. The initial first few camera angles are all short clips off what's happening around the school playground, and it's ahown as if it's from another students point of view. The fact that they are so fast and last only a few seconds each i believe makes you believe it is definately a student's view on things, as it is as if someone was just quickly scanning around the play ground to see what's exactly going on around him/her. The interesting point from these clips is that whoever's view we are seeing, he seems to be looking up at everyone, and the only thing he looks down at is the lads kicking a football around, this shows that he is maybe scared of everyone around him, and doesn't really know where to look so he just keeps scanning the area making himself look busy.

The camera often goes back to a drill for short clips, and it is always looking upwards at it, possibly trying to show that it has some kind of power and/or relevance. It is also always a close up of the drill, we cannot see who is actually using it we can just see their eyes, behind goggles and that it is in use. I feel that this constant flashback to the drill makes me audience a bit on edge, and curious to as what is happening, or what may happen with the drill.

As the film goes on it then goes into a classroom scene. The camera angle is once again, set at eye line level, as if it was a student watching the ongoings from the back of the room. As the fight gets more violent, the camera moves in closer to get a more detailed view on what's happening.

As the fight progresses, the camera angle switches from the midshot of the fight, to an over shoulder shot of the bully, within the fight it then alternates from the over the shoulder shot to then an eye line close up, as if looking from the victims view. This technique is good as it makes you realise how the girl must be actually feeling with numerous people in her face intimidating/ beating her up, and then also with people watching her from the backround class. When looking at the victim the camera is set high, where it is looking down at thr girl as if to show she doesn't have any power, yet the bully has lots of it.

However, when a lad walks in the classroom sticking up for the victim, the camera angles comes down back to eye level as if to show that when he's around, she's not as powerful. This theory is then supported when the lad says a remark that humiliates the girl, and you can hear the class in the backround sniggering at the comment.