Gangster Nation Analysis

One of our stimulus materials was music. Our teacher played 2 songs to the class, one of them was “Gangster Nation – Ice Cube” and the other one was “The Rumble – West Side Story”, both very different, but both about Law & Order. “Gangster Nation” is a more modern song and that is why it had a lot of drums and effects in the song, on the other hand “The Rumble” is a song in a musical and musicals rarely use drums, they mostly rely on the piano and maybe strings. The first song was very stereotypical all of the people wore baggy clothes and it had a number of gangs, but all of the gangs had a leader, however in “The Rumble” it was made unclear who was the leader in the gang, because all of the actors / characters were moving in unison and they

In my group we brought 2 newspaper articles, a song and a poster. One of the newspaper articles was talking about a drug bust and the other was talking about a shooting in East London. A song called “Bitch better have my money”, which we decided to use. The song really helped us, because it gave us the idea of someone stealing money from the gang leader (me) therefore leading to the statement “Bitch better have my money”. We decided to mark the moment when the high status character realised that there is an insufficient amount of money. We used a freeze frame, levels and thought tracking to make it clear. When the gang leader found out some money was missing, everyone went into a freeze frame, except 2 of the characters (Imogen and Kim). They were the ones that stole the money and when all of us froze they started talking about where they left the money and how the gang leader noticed that the money is missing, that made it clear to audience who stole the money. We used levels after the gang leader realized that someone might have taken the money, I, being the gang leader came really close to one of the actors (Harry) who played a gang member that was new to the group, and he and all of the other characters surrounded me, I was in the middle of the circle and they kind of bent down forward so that I stand out. That made it clear to the audience that I was in power at that time and everyone were scared of me. I used facial expressions to show that my character is calm most of the time, but when I got angry my facial expression changed completely. Also my voice was really low and I was speaking slow, but as soon as I found out the money was missing, I gradually started raising my voice, but I still kept my pace the same, so that it sounds like I’m suggesting that the other gang members are dumb and they don’t understand what I’m saying. To make it better I could