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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