ANALYSIS OF THE INTRO OF THE MOVIE...

The intro of the movie starts with the name of the institution and a track of 50Cent "i'll whip ya head boy" is played on, and the credits are shown on the screen, the name of the director and the name of the actors, the name of the song played on.

as the credits and the song of the intro are played on, there is a long shot from the side mirror of the 50cent's car showing cars driving during the night which is low-key-lighting and the only lights turned are the lights of the city and showing many cars driving at the same time which is indicating it is a busy city.

then the camera zooms on 50Cent's car and mainly a close up on 50cent's face which is indicating that he is the protagonist because he's the first character seen and he is shown as serious and that something is going to happen, and there is a white boy in the car looking scared, and then we see a man holding a gun and hugging the white boy so that is showing that something is going to happen to him and that is now related to the name of the song and which makes sense.

Then other members of the gang are shown in the car, so that is indicating that they are the main characters of the movie, at the end the car is still shown from a long shot from the outside and then it zooms up to the screen again as parts of the location are being seen.

IDEOLOGY AND VALUES

The ideology is mainly to show the biography of 50 Cent and how he was able to become a famous rapper and what problems he faced in the past, it is also to show the patriarchal ideology of black males.
the other ideology that is trying to be shown to the audience is poverty and showing that some black males are having that problem and that what is causing them to start getting involved in crimes and robbings etc...
the life of many black youths is shown throughout the movie and also many solutions are being seen, and 50Cent finds the only way to become successful is to get into music and rap and that can give us an idea why we see many black males getting involved into rap and music, so that's maybe because of the same case of 50cent which is poverty, teenage problems, drugs etc...

INSTITUTION

What is the institutional source of the text?
ISA, Paramount- hollywood institutuions.
MTV television films because he is a singer and is associated with his style.
In what ways has the text been influenced or shaped by the institution which produced it?
in realtion to the mtv institution is 50 cent's music included in the movie, promoting his songs.
Is the source a public service or commercial institution? What difference does this make to the text? the source is a commercial institution because they are hollywood institution not as the BBC which is a service public broadcaster, the difference is that it will be screened in the big odean cinemas not as a BBC text wich will be screened in art house cinemas.
as it is screened in odean cinemas, so it is aimed at a wider audiences and it is going to be screened around the world, and excpects to get a lot of views.

AUDIENCE

the text is mainly aimed at young adults aged 15-18 because the age certificate is 15, it is also aimed at adults to show them how are the lives of some young black males.
the text is also dedicated to 50Cent's fans which will be so interested to see the movie and see 50 cent's real life and how he was able to become a famous worldwide known rapper, and what problems he faced in his life.
is is dedicated to adults mainly parents to show them the life of many youngsters and what problems they are facing, due to the lack of parents supporting them to prevent the problems such as being involved in drugs, crimes etc...
poverty which is another problem is to make them feel what is causing many children on the world to become like that and get involved in many things in order to get money, which is show in the movie 50cent's mother is trying to do anything to feed her children and her family such as selling drugs.

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not really related to my topic but it has the music genre which is quiet realated to one of the genres of my topic, which is muscial genre.

GENRE

To which genre does the text belong?
The movie has a hybrid genre, mainly it is an action movie because it includes many crimes happening, and also the genre can be musical because there is a lot of use of 50Cent's music tracks so that is promoting his songs in some ways and because the movie is mainly based on the life of the rapper 50 cent.
it can also be romantic when he meets his girlfriend and they get married and have a child, when they show them together.

Does the text feature a star, a director, a writer etc who is strongly associated with the genre? What meanings and associations do they have?
The movie features (Curtis) 50Cent's life and that is associated with the musical genre because his proper music is played on, which is promoted in the movie, Action is associated with his life due to the crimes and murders that he faced, and that association of the genre with the text is to show the audience how he was able to become a famous rapper after facing all of those problems, the cations is therefore to show how he was involved in crimes etc...
the musical genre of the movie is there to promote his music and also associated within the scenes to show how he became a rapper and how he actually started his career.

NARRATIVE

Wider context (SHEP):
Social: we see the type of community that 50cent is living in, that most of the teenagers in there are getting involved in crimes and drugs…
This problems are caused due to poverty so those teenagers find becoming a gangster as the only way to get what they wanted in life.
50 cent’s mother used to be involved in crimes and drugs in order to feed her family, until the day she was killed this shows how it affected a lot on 50cent and that what might have made him follow his mother’s background, in order to get revenge from the death of his mother.
Economic: poverty which is one of the main problem that is making those boys to become gangsters, of robbing banks, because they see their community suffering, we see also when 50cent gets rich after being involved in many robbing and crimes he goes off and buys a car without even having a driving licence, at the beginning the car seller didn’t want to give him the car but when he saw the amount of money that he was offered he accepted and didn’t follow the rule. This shows how everyone in that community is in need of money and are able to do anything to get it.
After that he tries to do anything to escape from that so he finds music the best way to get money but he was still involved in those crimes.
Political: showing some black teenagers are always getting involved in those things such as in bullet boy which is also Ashley Walters from being involved in a type of crime he gets to prison as 50cent did.

Theories/theorists:
Prop- the hero which is shown as 50cent (Marcus) he is always being tortured and bullied bye the other gangsters( the villain) the way that they shot him many times.
Levi Strauss- Binary Oppositionwhich is 50cent against the other boys competing with him on the topic of money and when he gets rich they try to do anything to stop him.
non linear narrative because it includes flashbacks.