Case Study - Reps in Teens (SKINS)

Moral Panics : Moral panics can be applied to the short clip we have seen from Skins, we see the children of a family being disrespectful, manipulative and rebellious to their parents which is a common stereotype for teenagers. An example of this is when we see the younger sister coming home in the morning, we see her in a high angle shot from the bedroom window, imitating Tony's (brother) perspective. We notice through her clothing, messy hair and ruined make-up that she's been out all night, her clothing is low cut and exposing a lot of skin which can connote her potential promiscuity and her underage activities. Her brother then stalls his father for his sister to come home without being caught, covering her behaviour. Furthermore, we then come to realise the parents are completely oblivious to these attributes of their children and they consequently get away with this type of inappropriate behaviour. This triggers the moral panics of having parents lose control over their children and being in the unknown about what they are up to.

Stereotypes and Counter-types: There are many more teenage stereotypes to counter-types in the clip. One stereotype i noticed is the boy 'Sid', he does not wake up on time for his education and ignores his friends calls in attempt to wake him up. This is a typical lazy teenage boy stereotype being careless about things that should be important. His best friend Tony then comes up with an idea to get him out of bed by ringing the house phone and....