This document asks a series of questions about the film "Fish Tank" and how it represents youth and adults. It asks how opinions develop of the young characters and adult characters throughout the film. It also asks how the film challenges stereotypes of working-class youth by showing a different perspective than typical media representations, and how the film could be used in an exam to argue that media often presents unfair representations of youth.

1. Fish tank

2. • What connotations does the name of the film
have? ‘Fish tank’

3. • How are youth represented in this film?
• How are adults represented in this film?
• How does your opinion change/ develop
towards the youngsters and the adults
throughout the duration of this film?

4. Where do representations come from?
• Who do young people identify with and
develop their ideologies from?
• How do the adults in fish tank influence the
choices made by the young people in this film?
• How does this film show a different point of
view of young people and how representations
of youth may be misunderstood in the media?
• How does this film challenge stereotypes of
young people in this social class category?

5. • How could we use this film in the exam to argue
how the media show an unfair representation of
youth.
• How could we discuss the ‘form’ of media in our
exam? Would we be exposed to such venerability
of teenagers in this category (social class) if not
choosing to consume this film?