In this class we finished watch the first eposide of Skin and you were asked to look at a different aspect of Textual Analysis -
Camera Shots, Angle, Movement and Composition
• Shots: establishing shot, master shot, close-up, mid-shot, long shot, wide shot, two-shot, aerial shot, point of view shot, over the shoulder shot, and variations of these.
• Angle: high angle, low angle, canted angle.
• Movement: pan, tilt, track, dolly, crane, steadicam, hand-held, zoom, reverse zoom.
• Composition: framing, rule of thirds, depth of field – deep and shallow focus, focus pulls.
Editing
• Includes transition of image and sound – continuity and non-continuity systems.
• Cutting: shot/reverse shot, eyeline match, graphic match, action match, jump cut, crosscutting, parallel editing, cutaway; insert.
• Other transitions, dissolve, fade-in, fade-out, wipe, superimposition, long take, short take, slow motion, ellipsis and expansion of time, post-production, visual effects.
Sound
• Diegetic and non-diegetic sound; synchronous/asynchronous sound; sound effects; sound motif, sound bridge, dialogue, voiceover, mode of address/direct address, sound mixing, sound perspective.
· Soundtrack: score, incidental music, themes and stings, ambient sound.
Mise-en-Scène
· Production design: location, studio, set design, costume and make-up, properties.
· Lighting; colour design
You had to think about how the area you had created a representation of British Teenages
Here is what you came up with
How are teenagers represented in this extract of “Skins” and elsewhere in this episode? (Mise-En-Scene)
Teenagers are shown in a very stereotypical manner. This starts off in the title sequence, where we can see teenagers drinking, smoking, kissing and having sex. It also shows the location, which is an urban area, with terraced housing (perhaps showing the poorer parts of the area). They also use film out on location instead of just filming in a studio, which makes it a more realistic representation.
The lighting used at the start of the episode (in Tony’s bedroom) is quite naturalistic and is quite dark. The darkness/lack of light is conventional of a teen’s bedroom.
The props in this small sequence at the beginning suggest the teenager’s use of technology. For example making several calls to people at once suggests that they know how to use technology to a more advanced level than the adults. Technology is also shown in Tony’s room when he turns up his music on a docking station and claims to his father the volume is stuck and he cannot turn it down therefore claiming he knows more about it making the teenager oddly more powerful than the parent.
Many of the connotations in this piece suggest that young adolescents are sex obsessed. We can see this from the very first scene when the camera zooms out to reveal to us a duvet of two naked people. This suggests it is all young people think about. Later when on the phone we can see a girl in a towel admiring herself in the mirror and rubbing her legs. This implies ideas of sex which are later to come in the program.
Also from this short scene it can be said that adolescents care about their appearance as she is subconscious of the names that Tony calls her down the phone. The opening scene shows Tony exercising and admiring his muscles in the mirror. This shows he too is sensitive to how he looks and how others perceive him.
Teenagers are not like other members of society or the adults. When Tony is on the bus and he starts to talk about someone losing their virginity we can see two women behind him who share a look of disgust. This is an inappropriate conversation for normal society but adolescents to not appear to care about who is around them-the stereotypical impression. Facial expression can also show Tony’s dominance over his father. When his father loses his temper, Tony remains calm and cocky with a smirk. This shows him exercising power over his father.
How are teenagers represented in this extract of Skins and elsewhere in this episode?
In this episode of Skins teenagers are represented in many ways through the camera shots, angles and composition. The episode starts off with Tony in the centre of the bed. The camera then zooms out to show the various shots such as long, mid and close up of Tony’s body with just his underwear on which suggests that this scene shows tony is a confident teenager.
His sister then comes into the shot with the camera tracking her as she walks towards the camera, showing that she was arriving home late from somewhere she shouldn’t have been. The shots from Tony and his sister show that they have a relationship in which they do not need to communicate by talking, to get a message across, which suggests that this happens to teenagers on a multiple occasions as he knows what she wants him to do.
The following scene of the low angle shot between Tony and his dad looking down on him contrasts there power within each other, as Tony is seen to be in control of the situation so this suggests that teenagers may have a difficult relationship with there parents, and that parents struggle to control them because at there age they are capable of doing what they want, and they don’t need there parents to guide them. This is a bad representation of teenagers because it shows them to be moody with a bad attitude.
When tony is in the bathroom, there is a close up shot of the book he is reading, which shows that he is quite intellectual, but as the camera zooms out, we realise he is sitting on the toilet, which changes the contrast of how we see him as a teenager. His girlfriend who is also shown in the bathroom with the camera tracking her leg while she just in towel, which suggests that female teenagers take pride in their appearance.
How are teenagers represented in this extract of Skins and elsewhere in this episode?
Within the title sequence there are various shots of smoking, dancing, kissing and sex. These shots seem to all be close ups as opposed to longer shots that would give the situation away. Just from watching the title sequence you are given an immediate stereo type of teenagers and their lives.
The first shot is a extreme close up of the main character for this episode (Tony), this shot is followed by a reverse zoom. The reverse zoom allows us as viewers to see that he is not as innocent as his facial expression due to his naked man & lady bedding. This is another insight in to the proposed sexual nature of teenagers lives. The next shot is a mid shot of Tony working-out, the fact that we as an audience see a lot of Tony’s body suggests confidence in the way he feels about himself. We are then presented with a point of view shot (Tony’s P.O.V), this is of a naked woman. The way the shot is shown you are given the impression that as a teenage boy he objectifies her, this is reinforced as we realise that his alarm on his watch was set specially to view the lady. From the point of view shot we move to a low angle shot from his sister effy’s perspective. This looking up at Tony gives the idea that he is in power over her.
Moving from the bedroom scene, there is an extreme close up of a very intellectual looking book, however we then zoom out from the title to see that he is sitting on the toilet. This then makes us think, is he actually intelligent? This is a representation of teenagers in a negative way.
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