Collective Identity case study presentations

• Vulnerable teens
•  Stabby chav
• Internet/ gaming
•  positive go getting
• sympathetic negative
• normal/ average teenagers.

case studies: 

Some Girls

• BBC3, british, producer = davis. To represent girls who are not shown in media as much.
• 3 series. female version of inbetweeners
• target audience = 15+ females
• 4 16 y/o school girls in South London. 
• school, boyfriends, careers, sex
• Black British, Asian, and two white characters.

characters

• Viva = protagonist. smart, caring, normal. Boyfriend, relatable character: divorced parents, school stress.
• Amber = stupid and ditsy, stubborn, gullible, no common sense, useless.
• Saz = strict sikh family, repressive home life, feels ignored, sarcastic, awkward, smart
• Holli = chav, dad imprisoned, depressed mum, anger issues, loyal to friends, caring deep down.

How teenage girls viewed the programme

• accurate sense of pressures of teen girls
• "portrays human life realistically"

Misfits

British Sci-Fi, comedy drama: develop supernatural powers whilst doing community service.

Kate Crowe produced, 2009-13, five series

Loud mouths, some subverted

on E4, teen comedies.

Characters

• Curtis: runner, caught with cocaine, develops time manipulation power, angry and more serious
• Simon: arson, weird one, sharp, witty
• Kelly: "slap happy chav", aggressive
• Alisha: princess, sassy. can put anyone into a sexual frenzy
• Nathan: least serious. Fan fav, stole pic n mix and stapled owners hand, superpower= immortality

powers are similar to personalities. personalities have many levels

neg of youth: criminals

characters in depth, posi traits - lovable and funny.

Bad Education

2012-2015. BBC3.

made into a movie in 2015

Young teacher MR Wickers trying to impress Rosie Guilliver

Producer - Tiger aspect productions

target audience: 15-24 

characters

• Joe - teachers pet. grows in confidence. posi light - strict parents, good background
• Mitchell - chav, no dad, bullies others. real soft side, ends up in youth detention centre.
• chantelle: sexual, neg: bad rep. does well in exams 
• Stephen: gay, good at drama, dance, sports. posi rep, makes gay acceptable to older gen.
• Rem Dogg - wheelchair, humorous. posi - same opps as able people
• Jing: chinese, smart, posi: works hard. relatable: stressed of exam pressure.

all exag stereotypes. but still relatable

Top Boy 

Crime fic drama, ronan bennett

2 series

channel 4

teenage audience

drug business - want to be richest people " top boy" 

characters:

• Ra'Nell: 13, talented footballer, lured into gang, mother is hospitalised 
• Michael: 13, smart,wants to be rapper. member of gang, looks at dushane as father figure. arrested for shoplifting, loyalties tested
• Dushane: no education, forced into drug dealing, wants to be top boy of hackney. Business rship with boss Joe
• Sully: turns to crime. split with dushane, joins Mike
• Joe: only white character, older, controls young black men. violent crim, still loyal friend

rep of youth

neg: boys joining drug movement. reinforces hood stereotypes, black youths as violent - drugs and poverty

Young UK Entrepreneurs

• Archie Hewlett: plans to go durham - gets results and starts work instead. at 22, makes luxury shoe brand "Duke and Dexter". celeb clientele, Timberlake, Eddie Redmayne 
• Ben Francis: 19 made gymshark, rev of $120 mil this year. dropped out of uni to make gymshark
• Guy Riese: website - Uplearn to help reach high grades at A level. learned to code at 12. had glandular fever at a level, taught himself. upleard success rate = 95%.

Posi rep, successful, but unknown of. media doesnt sell their stories


Geek Chic
Caspar Lee; 23 - vogger, actor, 8 mil subs
"caspar lee launches eductu
Connor Maynard; 25, singer song writer, 8 mil subs
Youtubers - youth in posi light - take charge in own career

Sports Personalities
Claudia Frangepane: gymnast, 4 time commonwealth champ,
BBC show athletes posi in successes
Amy Tinkler: 18 gymnast, 2015 all round champ, tutored children to inspire next gen gymnasts.
Dele Alli: 22, footballer,

Kelly Turner
27 x chemo during GCSEs w/ incred results

Parent Students
Young parents in uni - posi, successfully juggle both

Charlotte
17 volunteering winner of teen hero award in radio 1 teen awards

Millie Bobby Brown
14, actor, one of 100 most influential in times mag .

Youth Parliament: Ciara Brodie

End of the F***ing World
based on a comic book
released 2017 on channel 4 and netfilx
James and Alyssa

James:
main character, rep teens who feel like outcasts
rep mental illness. murderer: unrealistic
Becomes a loveable character - audience sympathise with his traumatic childhood.
dark humour- exaggerated and unrealistic.
binary opposite of james and alyissa and other people

Alyssa
outspoken and rude.
different from society - smash phone
challenges stereotype of preppy teenage girl
reps outsider brit youth
acts masculine compared to james - tells him what to do

both fit stereotype of teens being reckless and disrespectful of adults.


Chewing Gum
protagonist = tracy
E4 - written by Coel
2 seasons
15 age restriction: audience 16-34 yr females

Tracy
24 shop assistant. wants to have sex and learn the world

Connor Jones
poet - in rship with tracy secret from tracys family

Candice
lives with mother, tracy's bff

Joy
Tracys religous mother

depicts black woman in a posi light
race, religion, sex, class, gender all shown

posi rep of youth - council estate but still likeable and non violent.
negi rep of youth - lazy, commit crime, promiscuous, drugs

direct mode of address - looking straight at camera

posi rep - loyalty, care for community

Fresh Meat

4 seasons from 2011
channel 4
intended audience teens nd young adults

themes
comedy - characters misfortune. uni life
people say it is not representative of uni.
neg rep of youth: drunk every day, take drugs in class, promiscuous.
criticised for only seeing negative reps

Josie
firstly sweet, then the heaviest drinker and most promiscous

JP
takes drugs from beginning

Kinglsey
from Essex, lies about sex and being cool.

Oregon
rich background. Hides money and intelligence to fit in

Von
drink/ drugs
hospitalised for overdose.

Brotherhood
focus on gangsters in london
Noel Clark: producer, writer, star in film
Kidulthood, adulthood
2016

Somewhat relatable to london gangs
neg image of teens.

Sam Peel
turns away from past gang life - settles with family - very protective of family against gangs
neg image - violent manner

Crime / London Stabbings
increase of crime in young people
Tories cut police
teens carrying knives daily

death rate of crimes higher in london than NYC

news report: 18 y/o w/ knife wounds in critical condition,
second man injured from same fight
19 y/o arrested near by

Lennie James - to who it may concern
42 y/o father - orphan in london, fostered
message to people who carry knives.

reps: either knife carrying trouble makers, or posh private school goer who takes drugs and gets expelled.
London Needs You Alive


Just Boys

1 series summer 16, follow up in 2017
5 teens, meet online gaming. travel to europe for 15 days.
are friends online just as valid irl

producer: BBc3
16-34 y/o

Cam
Owen
Sam
Stan
Jack

depression, drugs, online friends

slang, up to date.

posis:
shows mental health issues
reality: relatable
shows how their lives have improved at end

negs:
presents them as more depressed & reliable on drugs