Film Poster Analysis 2 This Is England-Amie Nelms

This is England, Meadows (2006)

Audience

• Awards-European and British-film literate audience, persuade to go and see film.
• Media review quotes-specialised film magazine eg. Empire, Total Film, high brow, for well educated/intelligent, film literate audience.
• 18+-film certificate
• "By Shane Meadows"-suggests film literate people will recognise name, 'one up' on others.

Genre

• Social Realism

Why?

• Setting-flats, iron background suggests urban setting
• Costumes-appropriate to time in society (set in 1983)
• Font-in style of graffiti on corrigated iron, in style with setting-red, white and blue font, union jack colours, patriotic, skin heads, immigration, BNP
• Director Shane Meadows, acknowledged for his social realism films-he's political, likes to portray realistic world and make films which inform and educate.

Representation

• Skin heads-male costume suggest violence, hard-drain pipes, denim, braces-symbolism, Dr Martins high boots-1st for working class men, 2nd skin heads, 3rd feminists, short trousers, bomber/denim jackets/harrington
• 1 black male-trilby hat, cromby jacket suggests difference, importance?
• 5 females-challenging and radical clothing
• 11 young teen people (one very young)-serious facial expressions, communicates violence
• Extreme long shot-almost like a line up, emphasis on group/gang
• 1983, society-'standing out from others'-different in sub-culture they follow.

Narrative

• Fashion reflecting society at time-1983
• Characters in line up-young male seems significant due to age
• Setting-suggests urban setting-corrigated iron suggests area in decline, possible demolishing?
• Title-'This is England'-patriotic, set in England

Amie Nelms