Narrative Questions - Football Factory

1. Who is the hero, and who is the villain? How do you know?

We can clearly see that the villains of the film are the men that are walking in a big gang looking for another person/gang, which isn't yet revealed to the audience. There is no hero as there is no one who tries to stop the fighting.

2. Where's the story set? What does it say about the genre?

The story, like all other films within this genre, is set in an urban area. It is set in a council estate with high rise flats at the start. It shows the dark nature of the film and the violence that ensues and shows the nature of the characters affluence.

3. How many principle characters are there?

There are 3 very principle characters - we see the boy that does spying at the beginning and the two men who lead the gang to their intended targets. We see alot more other characters in the gang, however, they very rarely speak and so I have not considered them principle characters.

4. How is the story told? Chronologically? What is the effect?

The story isn't too chronological, we see a boy walking around a council estate and then talking down his phone and the audience aren't aware of what he is doing. However, once we learn he is spying for the gang, the story is told fairly chronologically in that we see them walking to another pub to fight a rival gang. The effect this draws up is that the audience aren't given all the answers to what is going on and we have questions to see what is going on.

5. What questions are you left with?

The audience are left with the questions of whether or not the characters involved in the fight are ok or not and why they were there in the first place. We also are left with the question of which gang these people belong to and why they are fighting another gang.