Skins Representation

‘Skins’ manages to attract a large teenage audience by showing youth in a stereotypical yet quite realistic way, using a variety of characters that the audience can relate with. Through the micro aspects of mise-en-scene, sound, camera angles and shots, the characters in Skins are shown as typical teenagers, through the ideas of sex, appearance and religion. In the opening sequence, the character ‘Sid’ is shown laying in bed, in a messy room with his phone ringing. This mise en scene shows Sid to be a lazy, untidy person, reinforcing the stereotype of teenage boys. The constant cuts between the different phone calls, the talk of a party and the pace of the footage, of Tony constantly walking demonstrates the hectic social lifestyle, another typical teenage trait. The calls that leader Tony makes