The Skins trailer, to represent young people in the way it targets, has to use editing, camera angles and movement, sound and mise-en-scene effectively so that the viewer can get a clear idea of what the skins trailer is trying to represent to them through the trailer.
Some representations can be drawn about young people from just the very little editing of this trailer. There are short, intense cuts between each clip, and these clips are very brief lasting just a couple of seconds. However short the clips are, it does give us quite an idea about exactly what’s involved in this party. The short intense cuts from scene to scene represent how fast moving young people’s lives are. The cuts could also represent how fast childhood really goes.
Most of the camera angles appear to be POV and this creates the feeling of you, the viewer, almost being involved and it can show even better from close up exactly what’s going on at the party. The party starts out all fun and light-hearted but then throwing up and other events occur and it becomes clear that what started as harmless fun has degenerated into something totally out of control. A similar effect can also been seen with there being a selection of low camera angles in the first half show that the characters are superior to the rest of the world at this point but is contrasted with high angle shots in the second half showing that they don’t have control and maybe representing young people as not being sensible or even in control of their lives at an extreme. Also the youths aren’t particularly fully clothed and also we can see their faces and most of what’s going on, leading to a deliberate representation of a lack of discretion and privacy. Once again, this makes the audience feel involved and gives them an insight.
The sound track “Standing in the way of control” along with the drugs and copious amounts of drink being taken in this trailer shows that the characters don’t have much control over any events that might happen next. The song is key in showing the audience how the party transforms - The song is upbeat and fast paced emphasising the speed of which childhood passes to becoming an adult. The music slows down in the middle of the trailer when the party takes a turn for the worst. At the end of the trailer the music slows right down and pretty much dies out indicating that the party has come to an end and all the people involved are incapable of much anymore. This may represent how young people may well be out of control but to the point where they can’t take it anymore and need to sleep.
Much of what is represented in the Mise-en-Scene is either child-like (water guns) or lipstick (more grown up), this shows that although the young people are growing up they are still young people with elements of children in them. The drug use is completely radical to the party, and because of the excessive usage in the trailer, people viewing this may well be given the representation that young people all take illegal substances such as drugs. The reason they think this is because drugs shown are highly illegal and this shocks the audience into remembering this for quite some time. Maybe the children objects such as bear suits represent them developing into adults but still part of them being a child.
To conclude, the representation of young people in this trailer is highly negative and it shows young people only doing these crazy things at a party, and so from the only evidence given, people are inclined to believe that this is exactly what every single young person does. Parts of the demographic indeed do all of this crazy and wild stuff but then there are several sub-groups which don’t and are quite different.
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