As already spoken about within my shoot analysis for shoot seven, I have chosen this shoot upon the mediation of the London riots. Teenagers were looked down upon during these riots negatively by the middle class, without the input of "yobs" themselves as an attempt to make teenagers appear worse than they really are. Therefore, even though I know full well that all youths do not behave in this manner, I hope to extend this stereotype by using the main factor within all the images shown above- fire. In all my image Banks, I generally talk about each individual photo separately, however, for this I have decided to talk about them all together due to the linking between them all. Even though it is clear I would be unable to recreate these images exactly because I wouldn't be able to go back in time to these London riots/ wouldn't be able to visit any riots in time for the end of this project.
The most interesting parts of this photos are the ones that include silhouettes because it means the audience are unable to work out who is who/ cannot see their identity. I also find these photos intriguing because the camera has been focused onto the light of the fire rather than the subjects making the flames look even more intense. The first image in this image bank is of the police defending part of London which I find really intriguing because it shows the attempt of protection yet fire is still there- the police aren't stopped the damage- just trying to protect any more. I find this interesting because all of these images shown above were gathered from news resources showing that the media wanted the audience to find this as distressing as possible- in order to form the stereotype of youths because no good and untrustworthy.
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