Representation of Age Waterloo Road

Mise en SceneThe costumes that the characters are wearing help to show age. For example, the teenagers are wearing school uniform and the adults are wearing smart clothes. This obviously helps the audience determine who is younger and who is older. The costume also helps to show the difference in the youths. For example, Stewart is clearly a respectable youth due to his uniform as it is neat and smart. However, you can also tell that some of the characters are delinquent youths. An example of this is the characters pictured below. Their uniform is not smart and they are wearing jackets over the top that are not part of the school uniform. The audience would stereotype them as delinquent youths as they break the rules. Stewart would be stereotyped as a respectable youth because he follows the rules.

Stewart.

Editing

Cross cutting is used throughout the clip to show the different storylines that are happening at the same time. An example of this is when an English lesson is beginning and then it cuts to an argument between Amy and Stewart and then it cuts back to the English class where a student tells the teacher about the argument.

Sound Dialogue is a really good way to show the difference in ages in this clip. The students use slang words and phrases that the adults don’t use. For example, one girl says “Nice threads sir,” when she is talking about his clothes. This represents the students as quite chavy as they use slang words and words that some adults may not understand.

Camera Shots/Movement A close up/mid shot is used at the beginning of the clip. It is used to show Finn and Josh hiding a teacher’s camera that they had broken. This represents them as being quite sneaky and untrustworthy which is a negative representation of youths.