"Sweet Sixteen"

Director: Ken Loach
Year: 2002

Narrative features:

• clear characters
• pushes you into their world, real locations

Locations/settings:

• Public areas: pub, streets, beach
• inside cars and houses
• sets up the characters
• set in a downtrodden area
• the scenery is a paradox

Narrative structure:

• POV from the window of the house
• uses the music in the car to pass the time
• time lapsing- went over 2 months (mum's release from prison)

Characterisation:

• mum in prison, step-dad and granddad
• main character is Liam
• The main character has a sister, a nephew and a friend called 'Pinball'
• real characters- community- got to stick together
• 3rd person POV- walking with them

Ideology:

• all white
• lower class- when they look through someone else's window at the expensive equipment inside
• class- not understanding certain ones
• moves up a class by moving house
• all the boys are in trouble while the girls aren't until we see his mum in prison
• sister tries to better herself

Genre features:

• slightly documentary style filming
• music in the car contrasts to the characters and their lifestyle
• not much background music, only when needed within the scene: in the car, when he's selling the drugs.
• like La Haine because they use their own slang
• slow music