- 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
