Skins Trailer

In this Skins trailer the teen aged characters are presented as the stereotypical teens today. They’re in a party and they are behaving badly they are using drugs and drinking alcohol. The opening scene has been shown in this way to show the audience what the show is all about. The appearance of the characters extreme hairstyles and the girls faces full of makeup, people with drawings on their body. Most of the characters in the appeared to have half naked bodies. Which is expected considering the title of the teen drama is called ‘skins’.

It contains a lot of immature behaviour. There was a main character a young boy at the centre of attention waving a toy water gun about, He is shown in this way to make him look like a sexual confident person. This is importance because it shows he has authority and power. This action is an explanation of the falic imagery which is a male aspect that is supposedly meant to sender a message across. The audience for this Teen drama are teen and adults around their thirties.

Tv teen dramas use these stereotypes for specific reasons. One is to engage the audience with the program. Which is usually adults in their thirties, they can relate because they used to be young and used to get up to what they would see as no good now. The stereotypes are exaggerated for entertainment that is also something that engages the audience.

The camera shots explain a lot that you wouldn’t just necessarily see as a viewer either. Through most of the trailer the camera is held at a handheld, eye point of view, this is done to the audience. Also, there is a mid-shot of a group. Which shows relationships between friends.