1. Season 2 – Episode 9
‘Cassie’

2. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rt7o6pKJi
Bs
00:01:12 – 00:03:12

3. Broad overview of genre
• Teen-drama
• Drug, sex, alcohol fuelled world
• Group of eight teenage friends

4. Real-time Scale
• Skins cast changes every two series
• During their college years
• Physically change quicker than any other
age group

5. Hedonistic Behaviour
• Pleasure seeking lifestyle
• Emphasis on partying
• Drug use & alcohol

6. Education Setting
• Social clichés
• Education interferes with their social lives
• Stereotypical representation of teenagers

7. Music
• Platform for new musicians
• Sets the tone for the episode
• Funky Town & Cassie – youthful energy

8. Sexual Relationships
• Notion of virginity
• Visual of sexual activity
• Peer pressure

9. Episodic Genre
• Episodes drift between drama
and dark realistic comedy
• Some episodes darker and more
confronting than others

10. Serial
• All episodes connected to one
another
• Developing relationships
• creates emotion attachment between
audience and character

11. Ongoing themes
• Teen angst
• Growth
• Development
• Self exploration and experimentation
• Complex relationships and accompanying
narrative

12. Setting & Context
• Props
• Editing
• Camera work
• Music

13. Genre & Themes
• Props
• Dialogue
• Acting
• Lighting
• Non-diegetic sound

14. The Broader Context
• Relation to the series
• Fictional world
• Foreground vs. Background

15. References
• http://www.skinsmusic.co.uk/php/Season_
2/skins_episode9.php
• http://delivery.acm.org/10.1145/2150000/2
145595/p1524-ritter.pdf
• http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0840196/?ref_
=sr_1