Adulthood Film Poster

Adulthood is a youth culture film following the lives of a group of teenagers and what its like to live in the inner city. From the positions and the body language of the characters and the clothes they are wearing gives an idea into their social class and automatically casts a stereotype over the characters. We associate the character in the middle to be the leader of what might be a gang because of his stance and the connotation of the hoodie being associated with a gang and lower class of society. The dark colours also have an impact on the atmosphere created around the lives of the characters, as if portraying a bleak and hard lifestyle. Usually youth culture films dramatise on the issues teenagers face and how they deal with that through fighting, smoking, and breaking the law. Again the colours are all fairly dark and the skyline leading onto dusk is another convention used because of the idea that crime is committed at night when people feel more vulnerable. From the skyline we can see the outline of the tall flat blocks and buildings which are associated with the social class of the characters on the poster. The audience for this poster is intended for teenagers and young adults of both genders but mainly males because of the gang culture idea portrayed from the poster. The title is written in capitals apart from the 'd' which is in lower case this could be a connotation that although the characters are entering adulthood they haven't fully made the transition there, it creates the idea that they are bringing part of their past from 'kidulthood' (the previous film) with them.