How do the contemporary media represent British Youth Cultuyre in different way?

Harry Brown (2009)

Director: Daniel Barber
The opening sequence to this film represents British Yoth Culture negatively. For this opening they have used what seems to be a hand held camera. The quality of the camera is poor and the movements are shaky. by having the cameraputs the audience in the position of being in the gang instead of being an on looker. the mise-en-scene of the first scene represents a gang culture. All of the teens are wearing hoodies and are in a dark Alley. This has a dramatic effect because if this scene was placed by the seaside where its sunny for example it wouldn't have the same dark and rough effect. This opening scene was constructed to shock the audience, with the use of drugs, violence,death,weapons and joyriding. the reason why the director maybe would've wanted to shock the audience with this is to persuade them to watch the film and gives a dramatic representation of British youths. By having the two boys riding a motorcycle meas them seem rebellious. Also by having a mother pushing a child's pushchair makes the audience feel more sympathy as opposed to a middle aged man on his own. The mother character seems vulnerable and scared which automatically makes the audience feel sympathy for her as the young boys shoot her. The overall representation is reckless and rebellious.

Guardian (November, 2009)

Representations of Young People in this article:

• Comparisons to Vampires = non-fiction vs fiction
• Compared to mosters
• Misunderstood
• Breaking throigh the mediated representations
• Self centerd, me me me. Self Motivated
• Lowerclass
• Self-fully prophecy

Effects on Society:

• Fear- Moral Panic
• Hoody has an automatic connotation of 'thugs'.

Eden Lake (2008)
Director James Watkins

(Binary oppositons, total opposites. For example : Hero  vs Villian, upperclass vs lowerclass, etc)

How are Jenny and Steve (the main couple) represented?

They're represnted as couple in their 20's who want to have fun and be together in a quiet location. Steve is young, however he looks quite strong and Jenny is represenrted as an average girl. both middle class, well spoken and eductaed.

How is this contrasted with the representation of the other characters?

This is contrasted with the youths in the forest as they aren't welkl spoken, they dress scruffy and are very young.

How important is the issue of social class?

How are young people represented?