REPRESENTATION ON TEENAGERS

I have chosen to do my blog on the representation of teenagers, because people who see teenagers on the street in groups or alone may think that they are out to cause trouble and most of the time that is not true, because they could be out to meet a  member of family or they could be going to one of their friends houses. and so i am going to show you how the media stereotypes TEENAGERS.









TEENAGERS ON T.V
This is a extract taken from the t.v program Hollyoaks. the teenagers in this picture look like they are about to cause trouble and they look like they are up to know good. the camera angle makes them look very mysterious and bad.






                                                     
This is a picture from the T.V program warterloo road. in this pic the teenagers from the show are all standing together as a group











Apart from all the violence that teens do people also think that we are dumb. this is a poster from the funny t.v show THE INBETWEENERS in this program the boys are always being dumb and they always get them selves into silly situations and when adults watch this show they believe that all teens are like this.













TEENAGERS IN THE MOVIES

This is a seen from the film Adulthood were jay and Sam are going to have a fight over Sam killing jays mate trife. the camera angle in this shot is very menacing because Sam is holding a baseball bat and Jay is holding a gun which is making out the they were bad and dangerous people in the first place.

This is a poster from the film kidulthood. the camera shot in this picture is very dark and sinister because the characters in the poster are posing in different styles to make them look bad, big and scary. The person on the far right is holding a weapon which suggests that there are going to be some violence .






this is a part of the film kidulthood----------------->












This is a picture from the film attack the block in this picture the boy are riding their bikes. The camera angle in this shot is looking up at the boys which makes them look big when actually they haven't got a clue. In the film the boys are violent rude and frightening to the people who live in their block. And not all teenagers are like this.





                                               TEENAGERS IN THE NEWS


What do we often hear about in the news?
That's right teens stabbing other teens, teens looting and the most recent was the London riots were mostly teenagers were looting and destroying property and causing havoc to their community. But when a teen has saved someone or helped someone they don't put that in the news...

<-----------This is a pic from the London riots this teenage boy has just set fire to a van

<----- this is a picture of a group of young youths breaking into a shop.







THIS IS I VIDEO FROM THE LONDON RIOTS ----->

but apart from all the crime we do get a mention on our exam papers but on the other hand when they do get a mention the press always compare's the test to another and say "are these test getting easier" which as basically pops our bubble because we have worked so hard on our exams an they say we haven't tried hard enough.

SO for my conclusion  I think that the majority of young teenagers are represented in a bad way because in T.V, films and the news we are always seem to be doing something wrong, and when we do something good it it rarely gets mentioned in the national news/national papers. But the local papers/local news often tell us a more rounded view of youngsters today. so if you want to see want to see what the young people are doing in your area get your papers, go down to the local youth clubs and colleges and see how they are working!!!!