representation if Skins

Questions:

1. What can you deduce bout the setting (and specifically the house from the mise -en-scene)

Looking at the setting and where the house is located, we are shown that they are a typical middle class family. However there is a sight twist in the way the teenagers behave, by growing up with a good family orientated home you would think that they are well behaved. In the first shot we have a male character placed at the center of the screen this symbolises he will be a main character in the episode. As the camera slowly tracks backwards revealing him in the bed we are exposed to nudity straight away the headless pictures of the naked man and women shows that he has and interest in sexual activity, this is something that his mother would not be very proud of exceeding the fact that he has the authority in his bedroom. The character seems to follow a routine every morning as we see in one shot he looks at his watch so he knows exactly what happens at what time, also the mise-en-scene of his room is unusually neat and tidy. This could represent him as being a clean boy and could also relate to him being brought up in a very well manner. His clothes are neatly folded in his draw however, we see a shift when the sister enters the seen wearing provocative clothing, this almost changes the perception we have on middle class families as we see the daughter coming back in the morning with smudged make-up suggesting she was partying heavily all night without her parents consents and knowledge since she uses her brother as a distraction so that she could sneak in from a late night. She quickly then changes into her school uniform to get ready to sit at the breakfast table as a normal middle class family would do, the lighting in the room while the daughter is getting changed is very dark and almost potrays a sexual image of her exposing her skin, the dark light suggests that what she is doing is bad and not normal behviour. The Dad enters the scene shouting at Tony to turn the loud music off, he swears quite a lot and is only walking around in his shorts revealing is bottom. The constant shouting and swearing at his children shows that they are at each others throats all the time, this could be because the father is gets annoyed that he is constantly being ingnored which shows that he has no control over his children. He proves his authority over children by shouting. When we see the Dad again later again in the kitchen there is a low angle shot of the Dad with the son in the foreground showing the fact that he is the more dominant figure although, if we didn’t see the scene before we would of thought this, but we know the son like to lay games with his dad and wins as we see the Dad getting agitated, this could be the reason why the son is in the foreground. The first shot we see of the mum she is placed in the kitchen