In this essay I shall be comparing the representation of British youth from an actual established film and television soap. Representation is the way the media symbolizes something as being for real in reality. A stereotype is a label which involves a process of categorisation and evaluation. In the UK the British youth is stereotyped as a group of young violent, aggressive, hoodie worn, knife carrying thugs, who do nothing in their lives but drinking, taking drugs, having sex at a young age and cause trouble to the community. The two videos that I shall be comparing in this essay are, Kidulthood and Skins.
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There are a variety of ways in which British Youth is represented in a film called Kidulthood. Stereotypical …show more content…
Furthermore, I believe that this is a negative way of representing the British youth. Similarly, there was an extreme close up used in this film showing a character named Becky selling her body to disrespectful males. This therefore represents the fact that the British youths are ready to do anything for money, and are able to lose self respect just for a certain amount of cash. I believe that the media represented youths in this case as a negative aspect to British youth. The majority of the people living in the UK believe that young British youths are all part of ‘gangs’ and commit ‘crimes’, in this film we are able to see long shots of male characters such as Jay and Mooney who are part of a gang with the leader, Trife. In addition, Trife was carrying a weapon, such as a knife with him. Which proves the stereotypes against the British Youth is not just an accusation but in fact it is true. Following this, there has been a great use of Mid-shots used in this film to represent youths as drug addicts as Trifes uncle, Curtis was represented as a drug dealer selling drugs to teenagers. Throughout Adulthood, Sam is the antagonist in the film …show more content…
The characters play is one of the most important genre codes and conventions of this film, the personality and life style of each character is typical of the urban life. For example, we see Trife making something, us the audience are not quite sure what it is, but we can assume it’s something dangerous due to the fact that he doesn’t take the item with him but rather he hides it. Also in the urban society people give their selves nicknames and preferred to be called by that rather than their real names, i.e. Trife’s real name is Trevor but we established that he wishes to be called Trife when he’s uncle says “This is my nephew Trevor” and Trife immediately responds to that saying “Trife” implying that he should be referred to as ‘Trife’. Trife’s lifestyle was based on fast money and gangster living, which can also be associated with the urban way of
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There are a variety of ways in which British Youth is represented in a film called Kidulthood. Stereotypical …show more content…
Furthermore, I believe that this is a negative way of representing the British youth. Similarly, there was an extreme close up used in this film showing a character named Becky selling her body to disrespectful males. This therefore represents the fact that the British youths are ready to do anything for money, and are able to lose self respect just for a certain amount of cash. I believe that the media represented youths in this case as a negative aspect to British youth. The majority of the people living in the UK believe that young British youths are all part of ‘gangs’ and commit ‘crimes’, in this film we are able to see long shots of male characters such as Jay and Mooney who are part of a gang with the leader, Trife. In addition, Trife was carrying a weapon, such as a knife with him. Which proves the stereotypes against the British Youth is not just an accusation but in fact it is true. Following this, there has been a great use of Mid-shots used in this film to represent youths as drug addicts as Trifes uncle, Curtis was represented as a drug dealer selling drugs to teenagers. Throughout Adulthood, Sam is the antagonist in the film …show more content…
The characters play is one of the most important genre codes and conventions of this film, the personality and life style of each character is typical of the urban life. For example, we see Trife making something, us the audience are not quite sure what it is, but we can assume it’s something dangerous due to the fact that he doesn’t take the item with him but rather he hides it. Also in the urban society people give their selves nicknames and preferred to be called by that rather than their real names, i.e. Trife’s real name is Trevor but we established that he wishes to be called Trife when he’s uncle says “This is my nephew Trevor” and Trife immediately responds to that saying “Trife” implying that he should be referred to as ‘Trife’. Trife’s lifestyle was based on fast money and gangster living, which can also be associated with the urban way of