Skins Trailer: Youths!

Media Analyasis:

SKINS TRAILER

Representation Of Teens.

mis-en-scene:

the costumes in the trailer are all bright coloured, this indicates to the audience that the people featured are exciting and vibrant, as opposed to if they were wearing duller colours such as black or brown (we see these colours assosicated with adults, in the case of skins teachers, who are pitted as the nemisis of the main characters). The girls in the trailer are mostly wearing nothing but underwear again this shows them to be exciting and daring, not caring about the standards of polite society. The actions of the entire group are seen to be stereotypical acts of youths today, sex, drinking and drugs are just some of the things we see the cast do. This reinforces the views the costumes give us and adds a sense of verisimilitude to the trailer. The lighting throughout is changing between high key and low key, this adds a sense of disorder to the trailer which how the viewer is supposed to see the youths and the party.

editing:

There are many jump cuts in the trailer this keeps pace going, never focusing on one scene for to long, again like the lighting reinforcing the crazy nature of the party we are witnessing.

sound:

Throughout the trailer we hear "Standing In The Way Of Control" by The Gossip a song about rebelling against the system, which the youths are by commiting a party and doing acts that are frowned upon, this reinforces the negative stereotypes of teenagers in a senior generations eyes, whilst appealing to the younger generations who are the target audience for this particular program. The song choice also adds verisimilitude as it is a song many of the characters would listen to themselves.