After watching the video and listening to the Plan B interview on BBC 1 Extra consider the following:
- Does the video fuel negative representations of youth collective identity? Or does the video and lyrics together attempt to challenge these negative views?
i dont think that this video/song fuels the negative representations of youth collective identity as it is done in a satirical manner however to an ignorant party it could be reinforce the negative image that they believe youths are. The lyrics 'fuel the fire, let it burn' has a boy on a bike with a firework dressed in a hoodie and black reinforces this 'thug' image that people seem to have of these 'chavs'. However this is not what he is saying he means that the more that society abandons these youths the more they turn into these gang members a sort of surrogate family. The more they turn to the gangs the more violence will occur as they try to survive this hypocritical society.
Our society is a plutocratic one, where those with wealth thrive and those without find it survive. Yet somehow it is those without the wealths fault that our society is collapsing with youths at the helm or so the media would have you believe.
- Can you offer textual examples of how young people are represented in the video?
Some examples of how young people are represented in the video are as typical crimminals and thugs. He showed them how they were represented in th newspapers as mindlesss violent adolesances. He shows thme how sociecty views them fighters, thieves, drug dealers and addicts who live for themselves and could not care about the rest of society and what their actions cause for the outter world. He shows that they do not respect their elders nor anyone other than people who are in the higher 'gang' chain.
- Are there any instances in the video which show authority abusing their power?
- What was Plan B trying to challenge through his lyrics and video for iLL Manors?
- What does Plan B hope to achieve through his music and film?
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