Performing texture analysis with film techniques

The Fallout clip shows the social group to represent their age as

confrontational/aggressive.

How Camera shots are used to represent the age and varying attitudes within the social group:

Track shot: The track- shot is used throughout the chase scene, as the boy is chased through the streets(relate back to mise en scene)

this allows us to see him being followed, this allows us the audience to feel sympathetic to victim being chased, though it also reveals some

of the gangs motives representing their age group as confrontational and possibly aggressive.

P.O.V shot: Before the chase begins we can see the p.o.v from one of the aggressors as he watches the victim try to escape, this gives

us again an indication of the gangs motives which is to pursue him, this shot combined with some dialogue later on confirms their motives -

"Are you gonna stand there and take that....? what are you gonna do?"

Medium shot: From this we can see the facial expressions, and therefore emotions conveyed by the girl when she realised what's happened.

This gives us, the audience some insight into the different attitudes shared by the same youth groups.

The stages of shock followed by the victims plea for "help"shows her discomfort further emphasized by the close up shot.....

Close up shot: we sympathize somewhat with her sadness while also bringing up issues or consequences from the confrontational

and aggression of the gang. As well as age being represented, the shot also connects to the ideas of ethnicity and social background-

as this is what influences whether the victim could become the aggressor, or in the girls case who had originally been one of the gang

but eventually begins to feel regret, representing a lack of control and inexperience within the age group.

How does Sound & Mise en scene(MES) represent the age group from the clip?

The restricted code of language is used throughout the extract to demonstrate the age group as aggressive and possibly poorly

educated, we can see this during the first meeting between the victims and the aggressors where phrases such as "Black attack" &

"Booboo" suggesting informality between the two of them. This could show the aggressors to be working class and their language and

actions towards the victim may come out of jealousy as he is represented as typical middle class through the mise en scene as in the

beggining we see him at an adequate school playing basketball and then later on he is talking on his mobile phone blissfully, and while

this shows a innocent side off teenage society, it also highlights the ignorance and insecurity of teenagers, which might be restricted to

middle class teenagers.

The streets(MES): The streets themselves represent the toughness of the teenagers or at least how tough they believe themselves to be,

this further highlights their confrontational side in regards to their resilient exterior and their socialization skills with others, especially others

of their age group.

Non diegetic sound/Sound bridge: This is used a lot throughout the whole clip, one of these times is shortly after the victim is stabbed and we see the girl

of the gang trying to see what's happening, the NDS which is used as mood music to set the tense atmosphere, this music plays during the motivation shot

of the girl trying to see what's happening. This combined with the SB creates suspense and foreshadows something bad which we will soon see as the victim

is eventually mugged which we can see though the girls p.o.v shot which connotates some teenagers(aggressors) as being dangerous whereas the victim shown

to be lying on the floor connotates other teenagers with different circumstances to be seen as innocent and sometimes vulnerable.

Costume: The clothes of the primary aggressor show him to be wearing a red hoodie and both the colour and clothing represent the danger and possible

aggressiveness of teenagers whereas the victim is shown to be wearing a multi coloured jacket wit a white undershirt suggesting he is a bit more complex

than the other teenagers as well as the white shirt suggesting his innocence and on some levels his naivety.