Bullet Boy Opening Analysis

Bullet Boy is the debut feature by British writer-director Saul Dibb. Though the story itself is a familiar one, the film distinguishes itself through confident direction and strong performances from its two leads.
Set in East London, the film stars Ashley Walters (also known as So Solid Crew’s Asher D) as Ricky, a young black man fresh out of a young offender’s institute. Though determined to go straight, Ricky doesn’t even make it home before he’s in trouble again, thanks to his best friend Wisdom (Leon Black) and a confrontation with a local rude boy that leads to a series of escalating incidents.
Shot in and around Hackney, the film makes good use of its locations. In addition, Dibb and co-writer Catherine Johnson have a good ear for dialogue and their well written script gives Bullet Boy an authentic London feel. It also has a decent soundtrack

Narrative - the narrative of Bullet boy is shown in a very basic manner through voice over’s and texts shown throughout the trailer to back up and go with the voice over’s.
The narrative moment in the trailer in my view was the words "one shot" displayed and Ashley Walters shown with a gun to go with the text.
The trailer shows that the film uses Prop’s theory as you can identify Ashley Walters as the hero, his lover to be the princess, his mum to be the diner,
His friend to be the helper and the police to be the villains.
They also have used binarry opposition in the trailer by showing a child with a gun in several scenes.

Setting - This film is set in London and this can be seen through the scenes during the trailer, also during the trailer they show the awards won or nominated for the film and the awards are British.

Characters - all characters in the trailers are shown in tense scenes and no characters are shown in any shape or form happy or with nothing to worry about.
Ashley Walters is clearly shown as the main character as most the trailer is revolved around him and his fight against avoiding the police.
Other character roles in the film aren’t shown as of more importance as Ashley Walters although the child shown with the gun really gets the audience’s attention as this is something nobody wants to see.

Iconography - In the trailer I think the gun is used to link to the title of the film "bullet boy". The gun is clearly a major factor in the film and the trailers revolves around this and the title suggests so does the film.


Written And Posted By Tatiana