Kes Trailer Deconstruction

•  Starts in school-Teacher has dialogue, sounds aggressive and assertive-stereotype of school master as he uses punishment of young boy and calls him 'scoundrel'. The accent is Yorkshire and it clearly working class. 
• At 0.30 there is a close up on the boys face-he is given dialogue - sympathy for boy through music. Dirt on his face suggests working class background.
• 0.33- voice over starts and overlays images of boy misbehaving.
• 0.49-destroying nature.
• Game of football-shows a masculine environment.
• 1.05-"A friend like kes"-image of kestrel shown, juxtaposition given. The shots become longer and pans are used, this shows country life and how the boy is at one with nature.
• 1.33- "Employment office sure" - a young boy going for a work interview seems true to the time (1969) which gives connotations of working in mines and therefore poverty. 
• 1.43-violence juxtaposed with images of bird, could represent hope and freedom.
• Montage of quick shots showing series of violent moments triggers sympathy.
• "Kasper you make me sick" - zooms in on his face crying - sympathy lies with Kasper and repetition of his name gives the feeling he is bullied and that it is constant in his life. 

Website background idea

This is an idea for our website background, we have decided not to use this because it is too city located and doesn't reflect the location of our film.

Tagline inspiration

"Fate chooses your relations, you choose your friends."
- Jacques Delille (1738 - 1813) French poet.


"One loyal friend is worth ten thousand relatives."
- Euripides, Greek playwrite


"The friendship that can cease has never been real."
- Saint Jerome


"Walking with a friend in the dark is better than walking alone in the light."
- Helen Keller


Fear makes strangers of people who would be friends.
Shirley MacLaine


It takes a long time to grow an old friend.
John Leonard



After researching into Social Realism film posters, we noticed that the tag lines all relate to the key theme of the film. The main theme of our film is an unexpected friendship and so we researched famous friendship quotes to give us ideas and inspiration for our own film tag line.