Despite the newsreel opening 'This Is England' has a ver similar narrative and characters to our opening '12 Hours'. In theory it has a similar target audience, young people, to our film. Its because of this i believe they could both be put in the Genre of Coming Of Age. The link between the films is established by how the protagonist is of a similar age, ethnicity and background (location too is not dissimilar). The opening shot, post newsreel, is very similar with subtitles also being placed in the bottom half of the screen. However the openings will differ in the way the opening shot is established because unlike 'This Is England', '12 Hours' is set 12 hours after the very very opening of our film.
Another clear links comes in the form of the mise-en-scene of Shaun's (TIE) room with that of Joshua's (12H), both rooms are shown to be scruffy,unorganised and in a sense creating a stereotypical boy of that age. Camera shots are massively similar, for instance the establish shot at 4:25 though to 4:33 are a long shot to medium this is unlikely to be down to the reasoning on genre but more so that of conventions on a film opening. Narrative itself for the openings is similar because it represent the awakening of a teen, almost metaphorically establishing the fact both young teens are awakening for childhood to adulthood this allows the target audience to in turn relate to the protagonist. Overall i think both openings represent the awkward young person stage of life, no longer a child but not yet an adult, this is done by use of establishing shots that allow the protagonist to move toward the camera (moving towards adulthood) and mise-en-scene that fits in with stereotypical representation of that specific age and gender (scruffy and boyish teen).
Another clear links comes in the form of the mise-en-scene of Shaun's (TIE) room with that of Joshua's (12H), both rooms are shown to be scruffy,unorganised and in a sense creating a stereotypical boy of that age. Camera shots are massively similar, for instance the establish shot at 4:25 though to 4:33 are a long shot to medium this is unlikely to be down to the reasoning on genre but more so that of conventions on a film opening. Narrative itself for the openings is similar because it represent the awakening of a teen, almost metaphorically establishing the fact both young teens are awakening for childhood to adulthood this allows the target audience to in turn relate to the protagonist. Overall i think both openings represent the awkward young person stage of life, no longer a child but not yet an adult, this is done by use of establishing shots that allow the protagonist to move toward the camera (moving towards adulthood) and mise-en-scene that fits in with stereotypical representation of that specific age and gender (scruffy and boyish teen).
