Deconstruction of Opening Credits: Sket

Deconstruction of Sket

Sket (2011) is a British urban retribution film set in the inner estates of London. It was released on October and highlights the problems girls face growing up.

Typography 

 The opening credits of Sket uses a variety and a wide range of different font's. Typography in Sket isn't consistent that it uses the same font over and over but rather that they all have common features which make them conform to the genre. While I cannot sit here and analyse every single different types of font used in the opening credit of Sket, I can analyse the similarities between them all. All the fonts used have the same "rough" type of look to them with each font having exccentracised looks to them, either being bold or having a super elongated tail for a letter they all stand out in their own way. I also think that the pace at which the fonts change try to match with the tempo of the soundtrack, signalling that the type of movie is a fast-paced one or that it reflects how easily situations escalate in rough neighbourhoods.

Genre + Mise-en-scene 

The opening credits of Sket is approximately 1minute and 45 seconds long and begins with loud, non-diegetic soundtrack and this is prominent throughout the whole opening credits, however it does get quieter as diegetic dialogue is included nearing the end of the opening credits. As mentioned before the font is not consistent, it is always changing throughout the opening credits. The credits are paired up with a few establishing shots of a night time London to show the audience the location of the film. However right before we get camera-angles of street-view London, the word "Sket" appears in the colour of pink (regarded as a girls colour, and that is the main focus of the film) with the edit of large cracks as if it has been hit with something.

"Sket" is a common slang word mainly used by teenagers to describe "a young girl late teens or 20's who sleeps around willingly and without worry" (taken from the Urban Dictionary), and is a common insult used by boys against girls. The use of the cracks in the word is to show how the girls are going against the boys, they won't be insulted or name-called it shows how they are breaking down the views of girls being "weak".

 The use of these white light strobes of some kind are also frequently used throughout the opening credits, sometimes they're just swiggly lines other times they look like words or what you would see on graffite'd walls, they show how what we're dealing with or the main focus of the film at the end is about kids. A lot happens after this, what is presumably a drug deal can be seen happening and also a gang of girls beating up a guy, so much is going on that they are switched back and forth to show how the bad parts of London are not lacking in problems everywhere.

 

 A women in the middle of the road is then seen, this shows how common death or seeing unconsouis people is within the bad parts of London, it tries to highlight the level of violence and how they are so used to it, it is further enhanced by the beat up scene.

During the beat up scene a couple is seen walking past and see the violence happening, a girl participating in the beat up confronts them by shouting at them "What you looking at". The couple avoid the girl and are seen walking off, highlighting how people are too scared to intervine as they worry for their own safety.

Sound 

The film sound at the beginning is a non-diegetic soundtrack which already conforms to the common conventions of urban dramas. The type of music used sounds like a modern rock, or hip-hop, pop style which is normally the most popular music within troubled parts of London. This is because the loud bass, and fast pace can represent the type of people associated with it. The soundtrack actually plays before the beginning of anything related to the film, it begins when a logo of "AV pictures" is shown, perhaps this was done to show the impatient nature of the troubled kids.