Intertextuality: Representation of British Society

                                                                 Madness-Our House
                                                       (Release date-12th of November ,1982)

Mis-en-scene:

• Old fashion British Mews home(wallpaper,clothes,decour)
• 1980's British working class family lifestyle 
• Man in British school uniform(featuring a blazer,hat and shorts) in a Queen rock style
• Cockney British accents
• British family play squash)
• Old fashion 1980's cars
• Lead singer wearing fingerless gloves

                                                     Kid British-Our house is Dadless

                                                    (Release date-4th of July,2009)

Intertextuality- Representation of British youths,,young women,young men, social class, the late 2000's, disfunctional family life, British society.

Mis-en-scene: Clothing, Lyrics, settings, Age, Social class, Race

• Children- Careless, Fun loving, playing in the garden

• British teenagers- Working class, wearing Checkered shirts and Hoodies, socializing in their local postcode area.
• Teenagers are shown being disrespectful and rebellious by jumping over neighbours fences.
• A Policeman is shown arresting teenage girls.
• Teenage boys are shown rapping about house areas, often comparing their homes to houses in other areas of London.
• A working class woman is shown cooking a British breakfast in her kitchen (which consists of bacon, eggs, beans etc) 
• A young man in his early 20's is shown to be unemployed,unoccupied and appears to be still living in his mother's home because of that.
• A teenager raps about having a disfunctional family home and also living in a one parent household. This can be seen as he refers to his 'Mummsie' as being Dadless, which is a clear reference to how many children in London are brought up by single parents.
• School boys are shown playing football in their uniforms.
• A whiteman is shown with dreadlocks.
• The camera focus's on the teenagers to show what they are wearing(trainers, checkered shirts, hats, hoodies etc)
• In this video, young people are shown to be spending more of their time outside on the streets with their friend and less time at home with their families. This type of Mis-en-scene is used to reflect how young British people consider their friends to be their families and also tend to draw away from their actual families when they reach the adolescent stage of life.
• Establishing shots of houses are shown seemingly pacted together as if they are estate.
• A teenage boy refers to his house as a Manor house.
• Teenagers are represented as being very lazy in this video. A boy in his late teens raps about his mother giving him orders and that he often replies by saying that 'I'll do it later or yeah in a minute', which shows that he is often very unreliable or unwilling to carry out his mother's requests.

Culture change

• This song was influenced by an old fashion 1980's British song.
• In 'Our House' the lead singer is white, whereas in 'Our house is Dadless' the lead singer from Kid British is a young black teenager. This can be used to show how in the 1980's the common stereotype of a British young man would be a white man  , but nowadays in the 2000's , London has become disversified with many different cultures, one of the most common being the Black british culture.

Homogenius

This band who performs this song consists of a variety of different races and races of each singer goes in this order as they take turns in singing : Black boy, Mix race boy and then a White boy.

Alternative themes- A young man desires to have a good lifestyle and be very wealthy. When the audience is introduced to him he is shown to be sat down in a sun chair while holding a fizzy drink the same way he would hold a cock tail drink. He is clearly imaging himself holding a cocktail being near a pool. 

This was probably used to represent the harsh reality of teenagers having very big aspirations when it is very unlikely for them to achieve their goals.

Secular religious lifestyle- Teenagers are presented as being non-religious and unwilling to go to church.

Our house is Dadless- The singer's parents have apparently been divorced.

The teenagers jump over their neighbour's fences- They consider their community to be their family as they jump over fences as if they are allowed to do so.

People are shown to be keeping farm animals like sheep and chicken in their gardens. The teenagers do this as a way of becoming closer to nature, which reflects their desire for lots of land.

They refer to their homes as 'Play stations'.