Urban Drama conventions

• Usually a main character, either part of a group or just a single person.
• May have a negative outlook on life due to social class and environment.
• From a dysfunctional home
• Usually features rival groups/people
• Deprived areas; inner-city/ghetto era that contains negative aspects such as drug dealing etc. Use of council estates, alleyways, broken buildings, night-clubs, bars, prisons, drug houses, squats and gang territory. 
• Establishing shots to show environment.
• Cross cutting and jump cuts to jump from scene to scene in tense moments. 
• POV and eye-line matches used in tense moments.
• Mise-en-scene;
• Hoodies
• Trainers
• Tracksuits
• Hats
• Guns, knives, weapons
• Dogs
• Cars
• Sound;
• Diegetic sound; 
• Colloquial
• Loud
• Not RP
• Non-diegetic sound;
• Hip-hop
• Grime
• Bashment
• Garage
• R&B
• Music from regional artists, e.g Tinie Tempah.