Football factory Analysis

Football Factory Analysis

I am looking at British social realism so in order to analyse the opening sequence of football factory, I will look at the different micro elements and try and establish how they are used to set up character, narrative and genre.

The music to start off with is Primal Scream – swastika eyes quite a drum and bass/indie type music that would be used in this term to build up as if they were ‘buzzing’ a build up towards a bigger scene, this also represents the characters and what there about as we can tell a meet or arranged fight.
The mise en scene is one of the most important factors I feel as its all about reputation and from the costumes the characters are all wearing ‘fighting’ related costumes such as stone island and duffle coats, as well as the cockney accent and large groups preparing for a meet. You can tell from the location of tottenham hotspur football club with surrounding police. All of this gives off this build up with a tense dialogue and military type actions lead to this big meet.
The camerawork on the opening sequence starts with a small establishing shot with a few characters, then it switch’s to sharp switching group shots with a lot of tracking shots to show the readiness of them getting to the meet. There are a lot of group shots to represent the ‘firm’ aspect.
The editing of football factory is sharp gritty edit to represent the characters emotions, however t slows down on the monologue sequence and shows Danny Dyer’s thoughts on life but speeds back up and gets hit to show there overall life and what they live for, fighting.

So overall it’s sequence that wants to show urban fighting and show the brutal side to football but still have this bond n firms.

Lewis Bird