Negative and Positive Stereotypes..

Age

Negative: Teenagers; moody, grumpy, rude, trouble, drinking & drugs, music, mibile phones, ipods, loud, gangs, killing, on the news

Positive: Teenagers; Hard working, strive until achievement, determined, well behaved, good attitude towards life



Gender: Negative: Men; Lazy, alcohol, drugs, not hard working at all.
Women; Drinking, lazy, slags, short clothing

Positive: Men; hard working, jobs, money, music, sports, driving
Women; Housewives, jobs, driving, money, good mothers


Race: Negative; racism, colours, black's are trouble, whites are druggies, asians smell

Positive: Multi-cultural society, mixes of race, different beliefds brought together


Social class: Negative: Lower status is looked down at, no money, no jobs,no home, tramps

Positive: Higher status is looked up at, money, homes, jobs, reputation



Ability & Disability:
Negative: Useless, difficult, hard to look after, a burden, can't do anything, waste of space

Positive: Different, special, caring, loving

90210: Cameraworks- Age...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rf0NnVNrvEw

In this episode of the teenage drama 90210, cameraworks in used to represent age. In my experience of watching this series through, cameraworks is used a lot in order to show the age of person.

Through the first 1-2minutes of the episode, we see two of the teenage girls having a discussion based on boy troubles. Through a close up shot of the two girls', we can see their reactions of what one another is saying. The audience can see that the two characters are talking to one another due to the talking space left in the shots.

It's through the close up that we see how each person is reacting. In terms of Age, the conversation that the two characters are having suggests a typical teenage conversation about 'a high school crush.'

Also, through the camera works, we see how old the character is. through a long shot, the mis-en-scene shows what items of clothing the girl is wearing. She is wearing green and white high heels, white skinny jeans and a green sleeveless top. When the camera is on a long shot we can see that she is a teenager aged between 16-18 because she is wearing fashionable clothes and struting down her school hallway like she is on a catwalk.

Through the use of different shots, age is represented. We see a two shot of a mother and father having an arguement and through the two shot, their age is represented and we can see that they are aruging about an adult issue because we see reactions later in the close up of the mother.

Skins: Editing..

Through out this episode, there are several editing techniques used in order to represent the characters.

In the first scene, there is the title which comes up. This comes up after the girl is shown with no clothes other than under clothing. In white and suttle brown writing, the word freak comes up.

This is shown through editing as there is a small splogde shaped circle which says 'Freak' in the middle to show the title of the programme.

There are also edits such as credits, and other important titles.

For example: The name of the makers, directors and other important people in the programme come up.