Camera
The opening sequence contains many close up shots of the characters, aswell as long shots of the school playground. They show the various gangs or groups of students as they all watch each other. There is many jump cuts involved showing us that theres constantly something happening.As the camera shows us various characters you can tell they are part of the story as everyone one in the background or around them is slightly blurred. Then there is a close up of a boy using a drill showing he is making something but the camera doesn't let us see but they show us metal filings indicating its something crude. There is also a good use of thirds in the opening scene for example a key example is when the boy in normal clothes asks about this claire to what seems to be the bullied of the school the camera cuts to a shot of the gang surrounding the bullied with her in the middle and the gang on theoutsides. As all of this is going on it cuts to students playing football but its also blured showing its important but not to focus on. This can indicate thats its a British film as football is the national sport we play.
Editing
The first thing is that the sequence is very dull based around black, grey and white. This gives that gritty vague feel towards the sequence. The editing in the opening sequence uses a lot to blur. This is used quite often as is shows us various parts of the school playground bluring out general break time happenings then focuses on certain groups. The use of zooming is used as well to get a better sense of emotions of the characters. At the very start there is also ome speeding up and slowing down of the footage giving us that real time feel as though time is flying by. I also feel that your view as an audience is that similar to thats of a police officer as they would inspect the whole situation looking at each of the groups as its gives little details almost as though they were giving their side of the story, this is effective as its very realistic. You can tell the editor of the movie waned to keep it true as possible to real life and did that very well the editing is there but subtle not to dominate the scene.
Mise-En-Scene
The first thing you notice is that they are in school uniforms indicating that they are still in education, but all of them are wearing the uniform to suit the urban style with hoodies and caps/hats with the uniforms indicating their social status being lowerclass. This stereotypically indicates that there is a rough side to these students. The uniforms also idicate that even though they may be rough and trying to act as the top dogs, that they have not experienced the real world. This also tells us that the film will predominantly teen. But then the boys in their normal clothes bullying the 2 girls with there hoods up give them an almost villian like character showing they are different from everyone else. Another important scene is when the teacher directs his words towards the boy and the boy just gives a dirty look which deters the teacher showing the conflict between the teachers and students.
Sound
The sound is both diegetic and non-diegetic as you can hear the sounds from the playground all the talking, shouting and laughing which is general school break time sound. Then its non-diegetic as you get the music playing over the top giving that urban grimey mood to the sequence. It also seems to become more upbeat and louder as people begin to talk showing there is some importance then as there conversation starts flowing it gets quieter for you to hear.
Titles
The opening titles are very breif the use of a black background and white text shows the contrast between the colours. This allows the title to pop out and gab your attention, for you to think about what Kidulthood means. The text use is chunky and bubble like almost giving that cartoon feel again indicating that there still children, but then it has a rigid fuzzy outline giving the rough more older look to it.
Narrative
The story is not really being told by one individual but, giving you an incite into each of the characters the camera focuses on. This suggest that even though they are all connected to each other in some way or another. That they all have their own story to tell. The camera also focuses on each group as they each say their dialogue showing that these students are all looking out for each other so to speak. As you can easily tell the characters are connected it draws you in more to find out how all of them are connected in different ways and how they go about things. As there is multiple characters you cant yet tell that there is a main protangonist but they keep showing us the boy in the workshop, who is making something giving us the sense of him being different to everyone else. But then he hides what we presume to be what he just made in the bin. Then he returns to the group of mates indicating hes almost leading a double life giving us the sense of an enigma. So the audience asks them self who is this boy and why did he conceal something in the bin.
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