Season 2 – Episode 9‘Cassie’

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rt7o6pKJiBs

00:01:12 – 00:03:12

Broad overview of genre

• Teen-drama • Drug, sex, alcohol fuelled world• Group of eight teenage friends

Real-time Scale• Skins cast changes every two series

• During their college years • Physically change quicker than any

other age group

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

Education Setting• Social clichés

• Education interferes with their social lives

• Stereotypical representation of teenagers

Music

• Platform for new musicians • Sets the tone for the episode• Funky Town & Cassie – youthful

energy

Sexual Relationships• Notion of virginity

• Visual of sexual activity• Peer pressure

Episodic Genre• Episodes drift between drama

and dark realistic comedy• Some episodes darker and

more confronting than others

Serial• All episodes connected to one

another• Developing relationships• creates emotion attachment

between audience and character

Ongoing themes• Teen angst• Growth• Development• Self exploration and experimentation• Complex relationships and

accompanying narrative

Setting & Context

• Props• Editing• Camera work• Music

Genre & Themes

• Props• Dialogue • Acting• Lighting• Non-diegetic sound

The Broader Context• Relation to the series

• Fictional world• Foreground vs. Background

References• http://www.skinsmusic.co.uk/php/Sea

son_2/skins_episode9.php

• http://delivery.acm.org/10.1145/2150000/2145595/p1524-ritter.pdf

• http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0840196/?ref_=sr_1