Ill Manors

How representations of the artist are shown in the video?


How Plan B Shows the representations of the youth in the media to be a joke.
The representations of the youth in Ill manors at first glance does seem to be a horrid account of how all they want to do is nothing all day, and they crave to steal, do drugs fight and frankly just be no good for society; however he uses these examples of stereotypes of people living in those places to display his point on how the government is wrong to treat them as so.


In this GiF you can see groups of youths Beating up other young people on the ground whilst the group films the abuse. The use of the phone filming in this GIF and the point of view shot, is used by Plan B to show a representation of young adults being extremely violent and disturbed so that they will just beat people. This representations is used almost to insult the media how they represent the youth like this but don't care for why, and that is the meaning of Ill Manors which is that the government doesn't understand the behaviour of the youth and therefore shouldn't just report the side of the story that these people are violent; they should report why they are.

In this Photo/ screenshot from the Ill Manors music video there is a divide of two parts of the city with the light of the sun shining down on the known and tourist areas of London in the background which should show how that is all that is seen when people visit London, the good parts. Then compare that light to the darkness of the Gheto area of London where this video is set; the reason I believe the video is people filmed like this is to show a metaphor that these people are left in the dark and ignored, their issues are not bothering the government which is later shown with the riots. these riots being Plan B showing that they were to get the governments attention to sort out the system therefore to help these people with very little.


'What needs fixing is the system
Not shop windows down in Brixton'
This lyric in my opinion is the most hard hitting; that the government give so little towards these people in the way of fixing the places they live and reduce crime, rather than doing this they are focussed on the damage done by youths. The Context for this lyric Is the London Riots when all the news stories spoke about the damage done to shops and the city of London rather than speaking the reason why these riots occurred was an unjust killing by the police on a youth. Therefore what plan B is saying is that they should help these people less fortunate so this doesn't happen again in the long term as opposed to fixing the windows for the short term.


Throughout this video the focus stays on a purely urban Environment almost as if you can't leave from that place, the grey bleak backgrounds of tower blocks, car parks, and council estates also match perfectly to the grimy lyrics and way the song is sung as if the city itself is singing the colour grey. and This city of the colour grey traps you, traps you into a life of poverty and fear over the constant crime taking place.