My Brother the Devil

In todays lesson we finished watching 'My Brother the Devil'. I enjoyed watching the film because it very well directed and gives a good view of youth culture and what it is like to be in a London gang, or any gang for that matter. It has a really good story line which you can follow, the story line also allows you to make relationships with the characters and you feel as if you are with them when dangerous things are taking place. The viewer gets the message of the film very easily.

Film composition

In today's lesson we looked at film composition within Wes Anderson films such as Fantastic Mr. Fox and The Grand Budapest Hotel. Having the main point of focus in the middle of the screen draws all of the audiences attention towards it.


Wes Anderson likes to do it a little bit different to everyone else because most directors have the main point of the shot in one of the corners using the rule of thirds. But Anderson prefers to have the main point of the shot in the middle of the shot.

My Brother the Devil 1

In today's lesson we began watching 'My brother the devil'. The film is a gang violence film which is based in London. It is also a Youth culture film that follows two brothers, one who is dealing drugs in order to escape gang life as quick as possible and one who wants to be like his brother and join the gang.


The film presents the youth characters in this film as thugs and rule breakers. This is because Rash and Mo aren't allowed to smoke or drink alcohol because of their religion but they do it most days and earn money through dealing drugs. Within the film there are many stereotypes to do with youth culture. Such as the gang members having tattoos at a young age. The film is set in London which is where the most well known gangs are from, or where most gangs are based/formed.


My brother the devil trailer - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7CcVvaGJYSE

Project planning

Over the last week we have been doing our project planning in our group. For project planning we have discussed genre of film we want to produce and the ideas of how our film. We have decided that we will make a thriller with the edginess of a horror. We will make the adjustments to our mood board because we previously planned to do a cryptic horror film.We have discussed locations and actors because we want to be as organised as possible in order to meet our deadlines with a high quality piece of work.



We decided to try a different genre at A2 compared to AS. At AS we chose an action genre so for A2 we thought we would try and make a thriller film.



Our rough film plot is a boy visiting a girls house when an unknown person confronts/abducts him. The unknown person then continues the text conversation the boy and girl were having. He lets himself into her house and goes up top her room to find her. It is a rough idea which we will experiment with and change/adds things to our film.



We will need to discover the best location for our film to be shot. We will most likely need to use many different locations.