MIGRAIN Analysis of Film Clip...

The hand held camera within the clip creates a shaky effect shot to make it authentic. This allows the film to engage with the audience to make them feel as if they were there. The light shining on Sam's brother shows that there is still hope for him to escape from the violent cycle that he has chosen to be in. However, when he passes the gun to Sam it foreshadows something bad is going to occur to Sam. This also links to the fact that him passing Sam the gun connotes that violent cycle continues and won't end as the violence will keep repeating itself.
Within this clip we see that Sam fears for his brother's safety as he clearly shows with his body language that he is scared that his brother would repeat the same mistakes that he made and end up like him.
However, in this clip Sam's brother shows and states that he isn't "stupid" to repeat his same mistakes. The props that are used within this clip such as guns, portrays that the stereotypes of male teenagers is being reinforced as the show that they are violently orientated.
The generic conventions to show the film is of a Drama genre is the tension between Sam and his brother, as Sam doesn't want his brother to repeat his same mistakes and wants him to do the best of bad situations but his brother wants to show him that he is better than him and won't repeat his mistakes. Also that Sam won't his brother to get out of the violent cycle but his brother just wants to pull himself back into it as he wants to go with Sam.
Representations of males within this clip are being reinforced as well as being challenged in some ways. These representations are being reinforced by the use of props such as guns as it shows that teenage males are violently orientated. However, Sam tries to challenge these views by his acting as he tries to show and tell his brother to make the best out of bad situations. Although, the representation of teenage males are being reinforced as it shows that by Sam's brother handing him the gun, the violent cycle will continue, but as he gives Sam the gun he is pursuing to get out the violent cycle that he is getting pulled into. By doing so, this shows the audience that the mediated representations are in fact true and help back the media views and stereotypes given to male teenagers, which then links to Stanley Cohen's Moral Panic theory which shows that these exaggerated teenage male views are in fact true. The audience of this film will be in the age range of 15-20 years of age. This is because it's issues and characters can be related to them and would attract them as they could use this film text for their own personal identity to relate to the characters and the issues and problems they deal within the film. Within this clip, it creates an enigma as what will Sam do when he gets to this place, why he won't let his brother come with him and what is so special about that place that makes him really want to go there and are the answers to his questions going to be there and would it really help him along his search.