Response to The Elington Kid

Dan Sully's 2012 crime comedy short film 'The Ellington Kid' is drawing on the social issue of knife crime through the story of a local teen who gets stabbed by a gang and tries to find refuge in a local kebab shop - where the story is being told by two other teens. however, unlike other social realist films, 'The Ellington kid' takes more of a light-hearted, borderline dark comedy viewpoint to knife crimes. The violent story of the local teen being stabbed is being shown through a comedic and playful narrative of the guys in the kebab shop. By doing this, the short film is entertaining the audience at the same time as drawing awareness to a serious matter.  
To portray the message of danger and unease, the title sequence of ‘The Ellington Kid’ has entirely diegetic synchronous sound, focusing on specific objects. It features the sound of knives being sharpened accompanied with a close up of knives being sharpened, the noise of a knife slicing through meat and hitting the cutting board which is accompanied by a close up of the meat being sliced. There is also the sound of chips being dipped into a fryer, accompanied with a mid shot of the chips being fried. This sets up the referential code of the setting, which is eventually shown to be a kebab shop.