Deconstruction of Top Boy Focusing on Editing

Deconstruction on Top Boy Teaser (focus on editing): 

- At the beginning of the teaser, there is a montage of shots of the urban setting to epitomise the genre of the TV series. This allows the target audience to be quickly identified and for them to become interested in the trailer. The fast-paced shots helps to grip the audience at the start. The shots of groups of pigeons in combination with the large London estate blocks and terraced houses epitomises the London setting. 

- All of the transition between camera shots are straight cuts which gives the trailer a serious tone. 

- There are differences between lighting used on different characters; the younger characters tend to have high key lighting on them where as adults usually have low key lighting. Perhaps this is exploring 


- Themes of the urban drama genre are carefully incorporated into the teaser. There are snapshots of knife crime, police alert, childbirth, drug use, money laundering and other criminal activities. All of these are briefly shown in the trailer. After relaying this trailer back to the group and identifying themes of it which I found interesting, we established that although a theme may be central to the film itself, there is no need to repetitively show it throughout the trailer.

- No layering or grading is used which helps to reinforce the seriousness of matters occurring within the digetic world. Furthermore, this shows that all which is happening is in the present (no layering used shows this). 

- The use of the colour red during the drug scenes elucidates the potential danger and warning which comes with dealing these narcotics. The connotations of the colour help to demonstrate these themes and as a result, the viewer has absolute clarity of the ongoing criminal activity in the digetic world.