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Within my two minute short film introduction, there are only two characters. Our characters are named Sarah and Emma and we tried to create them to fit the generic conventions of stereotypical teenage girls from modern day society.

There are seven key themes of representation shown within films. The seven are;• Gender• Ethnicity• Age• Sexuality• Class and Status• Regional Identity• Disability

Within my short film introduction, I have included a few of these representations including; gender, age, regional identity and class.

Skins is a television programme shown on E4 which is an example of what the media perceive teenagers of today to be like. Various aspects of the plot are exaggerated to create the show to be more appealing and interesting although this is also a method of highlighting the dangers of behaving in these ways. There are a large amount of characters within this programme so there are numerous amount of stories within it. There have also been six series with lots of different characters throughout. An example of one of the storylines is a character named Effy. She is a younger sister of Tony, who is the main character within the first two series. Once the ‘new generation’ of teenagers begin at collage, which is the beginning of series three, Effy is one of the key characters. She is portrayed as a fairly troubled teenage girl who is alone. She turns to heavy partying with drugs and drinking, and she also has a romance with a boy named Freddie. Although, she does have various other flings with boys before this romance begins. This storyline and others within this programme, are demonstrating how the media perceive teenagers in today’s society. It is a clear example of how the media believe teenagers to be these moody, lazy, destructive and rebellious characters.

Teenage of today are often stereotyped with certain characteristics. Some characteristics they are stereotyped with are being;• Aggressive• Moody• Lazy• Rude• RebelsThe media are a main example of people who stereotype them in this way. Numerous television shows and films portray teenagers in an extreme way such as them having smoking, drinking, partying or taking drugs. Examples of these include are ‘Mean Girls’ and ‘Skins’.

For my own short film introduction, me and my partner wanted to represent teenagers and in particular, teenage girls, in a different light to how they are overly stereotyped within the media. By comparing our film to media products such as ‘Skins’ we have slightly altered the stereotypes. We wanted our audience to be female teenagers, yet we feel that more female teenagers are obsessed with music and the internet rather than alcohol and sex in society today. We also wanted our product to represent ourselves, not just teenagers of today, which is where we thought of the idea of our social realistic issue from. The both of us have gone through a phase of where we were obsessed with a certain artist or band and we feel that it is an issue that needs to be talked about, just as much as more extreme stories such as drugs and pregnancy. Furthermore, we have put our characters ‘Sarah’ and ‘Emma’ into school uniform (a green jumper, black polo shirt and black trousers/skirt), whilst in ‘Skins’ the characters wear more casual and inappropriate clothes all the time, even within their collage. This further contrasts real teenagers in society today and how society perceives teenagers today. Also, the way in which the relationships are seen in both films could be seen as similar as they both explore family relationships – in ‘Skins’, Tony and Effy’s sibling relationship and how even though they are completely different they are still reasonably close. Whereas in our product, ‘Sarah’ is taking revenge on ‘Emma’ for being ‘obsessed’ with the band One Direction which clearly shows how they have different interests and personalities.