Attack The Block Initial Analysis

1) What representations are present?

Within Attack The Block, a variety of representations are created. The hegemonic ideology is that youth are mindless and destructive. Within the opening, this is very much reflected, with a low angled shot introducing them, al wearing the same coloured hoody, it doesn't distinguish them as individuals, creating a collective identity as all youths being the same. However this does differ, as a young, not in the gang is educated and appears to be "normal" however falls back to drugs, much like the rest of youth community on the block which would suggest the entrapment the youths face, living in "the block".
The females in the initial twenty minutes are all of a similar representation. They fear what they don't understand. This re-enforces a stereotype of females as over emotional. The women who was mugged by the gang, was initially cautious of her surroundings and when seeing the gang, suggested she had reason to fear them, which she did. This conforms to the theory that older people view youths as folk devils, and they are described as "fucking monsters". The monsters to the youths are the aliens, the monsters to society are the youths, just as the behaviour of young people within this film is seen as somewhat alien to the rest of society.
2) How are they constructed?

This constructed with low angled shots, connoting authority over the rest of the community of the block. The mise-en-scene reflects collective identity as they are not being distinguished as individuals, rather like a pack of wolves.

3) Are there any folk devils?
The folk devils, predominantly are the youths, which are seen to be the monsters or 'aliens' of their community and are juxtaposed to the rest of the block.

4) Is there any moral panic being created/perpetuated/re-inforced?

Moral panic is re-enforced with the younger youths aspiring to be like the older, more troubled youths. This sense of on-going, continuous cycle of this collective identity forming panics those within society, almost like an epidemic spreading like disease. Peoples worry is suggested through the mise-en-scene of door locks.