2. straight away able to relate/acknowledge what the film is
about and what’s going on (mischief). We want the teenage
audience to straight away guess that the film is targeted at
them.
Some key areas of representation:
Location
Regional Identity
Gender
Ethnicity
Costume
Class
Age
There are key elements used in real world social realism
films, such as using an estate for location, the use of
tracksuits are used for outfits a lot of the time or by focusing
on working class to fit the stereotype. Therefore, in order to

3. By dressing our actors up in
hoodies and tracksuits, it is
portraying the teenage stereotype
‘correctly’ as this is how many
young British boys represent
themselves as it perhaps brings a
sense of intimidation to the public.
To have our film appear
conventional, the main protagonist
is mixed raced. This portrays the
stereotypical look of a violent
teenager up to no good.
The location right at the
beginning shows the area in a
dark setting with street lights on
and a grey, dusty fence. This is
so that the working class ‘look’
of the area is clear to the
audience and signify negativity
or trouble.
As you can see on the right, we’ve made use of young
faces and dark costumes. We decided to choose black
costumes as it connotes intimidation and evilness. This
fits in well with the behaviour of our characters and our
genre of media product as it matches the other key
elements of social realist films. As you can tell between
the different media products, the age, gender (male) and
ethnicity is very similar. Many of the protagonists in
British social realism films are of a different
background other than white British. In Kidulthood,
the main protagonist is of Turkish/North African
decent and in One Mile Away he is black. Therefore we
believed that having our main protagonist mixed raced
made it look more conventional
Anuvahood; Kidulthood;
One Mile Away
The Way
Out

4. It is clear to us that the media tends to represent teenagers in a negative and usually, awful way. I have
gathered some right wing vs left wing news papers and how the two differ when it comes to teen
representation and clips from movies giving a clear demonstration that it is targeted at them by using some
key elements to fit the negative stereotype.
eft and right wing UK
ewspapersLeft wing
he Mirror
e Guardian
Right wing
- Daily Mail
- The Times
- Daily Star
- Daily express
Neutral
-The Sun
- The
Independent
Left wing newspaper (mainly targeted at working class)
beliefs usually look to the future, aiming to support those
who cannot support themselves and believe in equality.
Whereas right wing (mainly targeted at conservatives) beliefs
usually lean over to a traditional point of view and believe in
survival of the fittest, meaning they believe that we should all
look after ourselves and believe they shouldn’t have to pay
for other peoples education and health service.
From my research and prior knowledge coming across
newspapers, I’ve found that right wing newspapers tend do
portray teenagers in a much more negative way. Left wing
newspapers attempt to avoid representing teens in such a
dreadful way however they frequently do.
ll see the ways in which the two
nt teenagers...

5. Right wing: Representation of teens
The sub-heading ‘Thugs and Thieves’ written beside the
young male fit the rest of many other teenagers stereotype
and representation in society.
The flames firing behind the boy whilst he’s
showing no reaction but a relaxed and laid back
attitude show that he’s careless just like other
teens. This brings about a very negative image
amongst British teens.
He’s wearing a tracksuit with trainers and his hood up.
This sort of look reflects the majority of what young
people wear in teenaged dramas (example on previous
slide)
‘The Times’ another newspaper
leaning towards the right wing, refer to
the young rioters as ‘Mobs’. Suggesting
teens are troublesome and violent.
The word ‘Rule’ implying that teens
are threatening and want to take
charge.
Again, associating a teen issue (rioting)
with fire, connoting that they are
dangerous and warning.
My media product fits in very well with the representation of teens in terms of
costume, age group, use of language, ethnicity and location. My general knowledge
and research of teenage representation has allowed me to gain more information than
before, to be then creating a successful media product by putting all of this
information into use (our final piece.)

6. Right wing: Representation of teens
The sub-heading ‘Thugs and Thieves’ written beside the
young male fit the rest of many other teenagers stereotype
and representation in society.
The flames firing behind the boy whilst he’s
showing no reaction but a relaxed and laid back
attitude show that he’s careless just like other
teens. This brings about a very negative image
amongst British teens.
He’s wearing a tracksuit with trainers and his hood up.
This sort of look reflects the majority of what young
people wear in teenaged dramas (example on previous
slide)
‘The Times’ another newspaper
leaning towards the right wing, refer to
the young rioters as ‘Mobs’. Suggesting
teens are troublesome and violent.
The word ‘Rule’ implying that teens
are threatening and want to take
charge.
Again, associating a teen issue (rioting)
with fire, connoting that they are
dangerous and warning.
My media product fits in very well with the representation of teens in terms of
costume, age group, use of language, ethnicity and location. My general knowledge
and research of teenage representation has allowed me to gain more information than
before, to be then creating a successful media product by putting all of this
information into use (our final piece.)