report homework part 3

Key features of fiction

Genre

Genre conventions	Misfits	Skins
Setting	Youth community centre and nightclub	Pub
Typical characters	Young adults	Teenagers
Plotlines	Teenage drugs bust	Adults vs teenagers
Props	Drugs, knife, drinks	Pool ques, drinks
Themes	Drugs and sex	Fight
Mood	Aggressive and desperation	Aggressive and manic
Costume	Modern youth	Modern day
Lighting	Mainly night time	Night-time indoors
Sound	Reggae	Unstructured punk rock style
Genre	Dark supernatural teen drama	Teen drama

    

Audience needs to recognise genre quite quickly in order to carry on watching something. People often like certain genre of programme and expect a film or TV series will be like other ones they‘ve seen before. Film makers deliberately use certain conventions such as costumes or mood so the audience knows what to expect.

Narrative

Misfits

The story starts with Curtis who is the main character in a youth community centre doing community service for drug possession. You then have a flashback to the club and him buying the drugs and getting arrested. His mind then replays the event and he imagines what would happen if he doesn’t buy the drugs. Everything goes great until he realises this sequence of events results in a terrible murder of his friends.

His mid then replaces the event of his arrest where he imagines getting arrested again so the murder doesn’t take place even though he knows he will be arrested at it might ruin his running career. It is a complex plot and you are never quite sure if what you’re seeing is actually happening or he’s imagining it.

Curtis is the main character ( below left). The other main character is his ex-girlfriend who didn’t get arrested in the end (second from left), his current girlfriend (third from left) who he is with at the community centre and the curly head boy he had met in the car park (right).

      

The narrative is non liner because it has several flashbacks. The reason that there are flashbacks is the whole story is about what could have happened if he could have  done something differently so it needs the flashbacks explore would could have happened. The effect of the flashbacks is to make the story more interesting and a bit confusing so you try to understand what’s happening.    

Representation  

Skins

This character on the left is the alpha male. He is popular attractive he behaves very confidently and seems to taunt people and dresses better than the rest. Jumping on the table with the flare shows his confidence is exaggerated and this entertains the audience as the taking incident as it makes it easier to dislike him.

The character on the right is a juvenile delinquent/ rebel.  He Dresses badly, fights viscously and acts like he’s crazy. What is exaggerated is that he looks small and friendly but act surprisingly nasty.

      

The character to the left is juvenile delinquent. She’s dressed sexily and acts like she just couldn’t care and is unaware of the mayhem going on around her.  Her kissing scenes are exaggerated and more like an adult film. This entertains the audience by exciting them. 

The character on the right is sarcastic self-aware. She mouths something sarcastic when she enters the pub and seems to be looking down on the locals. She is exaggerated by being dressed deliberately more attractively than the rest.    

  

This character is popular attractive. He behaves cocky and slightly arrogant and he is very good looking.  He flirts with other people at the bar which is an exaggeration having only just walked in the pub.

The uses of exaggerated youth stereotypes are important in this sequence to distinguish them from the other youngish people in the pub and to justify why they end up hating each other and start a fight.

The episode fits the audience expectations of youth since most adults think teenagers are loud, careless, thoughtless, drink too much, have sex too much. Many teenagers watching it probably want to be this way  or Know somebody who is like this so can associate with it.

Misfits

Popular attrctive. He dresses in quailty sporty clothes and acts like a bit of a hero . The differences between his sporting side and desperate attempt to buy drugs and escape the police is exaggurated and makes it intresting. You feel sorry for him being stuck in this terrible world.

Juvenile delinquent/rebel. She screams and makes a lot of fuss trying to buy drugs. Her appearance is quite brooding with short black and lots of black makeup.

Popular attractive . Very knowing about sex and drugs and seems older than her age.

  

Sarcastic self-aware. Acts very cocky and sarcastic in an exaggerated manner.  Hs argument with the sweet shop owner makes him very unlikeable for adults but his cockiness may appeal to teenagers.

 Reclusive/Trouble outsider. Seems a loner spends most of the time drunk and smoking also throws up. Recognisable due to heavy smudged make-up and slurring voice. Exaggerated as drunk and unpleasant.