Analysis Of Age In Skins

An analysis of age in Skins

From the clip we can see a clear representation of age being shown. The representation of age shows us that all of the teenagers in the clip have shown the stereotype that most teenagers are very lazy, swear, and use their phones a lot.

Tony’s character shows the same characteristics as most teenage boys. He wakes up to the noise of the alarm, works out, admires his looks and blasting his music early in the morning. But we can see from the clip that Tony differs from most teenage boys aswell, as his room is very clean and neat, he has t-shirts in his draw put out so they are colour co-ordinated. Tony has a cocky attitude when it comes to his parents as he locks the bathroom door, climbs out the window and comes back inside to the swearing of his father. Also we can see that he is willing to help out his sister, as she comes home in the morning and he distracts his parents to allow her to come in. The way that Tony does this, we can tell this is a regular job for him.

At the beginning of the clip when Tony is exercising, RnB/Hip Hop is played which shows his age because teenagers are into music from this genre. From the music that Tony plays to allow his sister to sneak into the house, we can see that he is into the same sort of music as most teenagers. This is a good example of sound perspective as it makes the audience feel like they are in the room with Tony and his father. When Tony is leaving the house, we hear a drilling noise which is foley sound. When Michelle is walking into the cafe, we see that Syd is into the same music, as music from the same genre is played. This image of Tony is then turned around, when he starts to sing choir music, we can see that most teenagers do not like this sort of music because they start to laugh at him as he sings. Shortly after Tony finishes singing, a teenage girl approaches Tony and tells him that Drum'N'Bass music would be played at her party.