This episode uses lowkey lighting whilst they are shown in the scenes. This effect produces a strong contrasts of light and dark and creates dramatic shadows, this low key lighting effect connotes that the scene was going to have a serious emotion. It also connoted that there was some conflict in the air between the two characters Dushane and Sully .
Most of the actors in the series are black males and although people enjoy watching Topboy, they don't notice that this tv programme is making the audience have a negative opinion on black males round London. As you can see Topboy have made black males act as drug dealers, gangsters, gang-bangers and thieves, this is just making the audiences believe that the stereotypes of black males are true. This can affect many black males around London financially, meaning that it will be difficult for them to find jobs and careers they are interested in.
The characters clothing shown in the trailer shows a variety of clothes such as tracksuit bottoms, big puffer jackets, hooded tops, air forces etc. The use of mise en scene on the clothing of each character connotes that the characters are going to be doing negative activities in the drama due to to the shots of the dark and thuggish clothing. This makes the audience aware of who are the trouble makers in the series. The trailer shows many shots of images of violent weapons such as guns and knives, also the trailer shows shots on drugs and weighing scales and shots of piles of money. This connotes that the series of Topboy is going to be mostly based around gun crimes, drug dealing and gang wars. This informs the audience that the series is going to be based around the urban and unfriendly parts of London. The series is based around peckam poor urban estates showing shots of local corner shops and cheap community markets, this is what you would normally see around the ubran areas of London. This connotes that the urban parts of London is unwealthy, however this is another stereotype of certain parts of London because sometimes its not always true.
The trailer uses Diegectic sound through out the trailer. You can hear dialogue from the characters in each scene, also you can hear music and other sounds that comes from a source that we would naturally expect that sound to come from. They sound in the background was called the 'SX woo riddem', it is a grime instrumental that was created around 2-3 years ago, it is very well known around London due to the fact that many rapper have produced songs on it.
The first shot shown in this episode was a close up shot Sully staring of a game of pool with a close up of the balls and Sully and his friend blured in thre background. This was an excellent way to enter the scene, it keeps the audience locked on to the scene because the sutle pool shot made such a loud sound , this connoted that this was going to be a tense scene. Another shot shown in the scene was a close up rotating 360 shot Sully that showed a high amount of lowkey lighting, they used a high amount of lowkey lighting with the close up to emphisise and show how irritated and annoyed Sully felt. The next few shots were many over the shoulder shots of a serious conversation between Sully and Dushane, this part of the scene used various over the shoulder shots to show the emotion of both characters; both characters emotions during the conversation were serious this connoted that the conversation was going to esculate into an argumen. The scene then stayed on an over the shoulder shot whilst Dushane sarcasticly left the building the use of blur on Dushane whilst he was walking out made the scene look tense and exciting.
The editing of the trailer was done excellently. The pace of the trailers shots and images in the scenes were very quick, the use of the high tempo cuts will keep the audience entertained and on the edge of their seats. At the start of the trailer the camera showed quick cutting shots of images of the estate, the quick shots linked with the music as you can see the quick cuts were in time with the beat. However the camera showed quick shots of certain characters in the s and linked it with the tempo of the beat, this made the trailer look more exciting making audience want to watch more. The trailer showed many mysterious panning shots from behind some of the characters, this connoted that there was going to be a lot of drama as the panning shots showed various panning shots of characters looking at something that the audience cant see, and we can tell that the character has a concerned emotion. The editing of the drug scene in the trailer was edited in a way to make the explicit substances stand out, you can tell by the way the room has a lowkey lighting and the drugs are bright white. This showed excellent contrast of both the colours, the use of the contrast made the drugs look more powerful. Also the trailer showed various panning close ups to show every characters emotion throughout, the panning style was either from the bottem going up or from the right moving to the left. The best edited shot of the trailer is the behind shot of the man in the car fully blacked out, and all you can see is police sirens flashing in the distance; that shot was very impressive it showed a lot of tension within the trailer. Further more the editing style made the trailer look superb it showed the same types of shots of the characters, drugs, weapons, violent activities with different characters showing different types of emotions
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