Represntation of Age: Skins

As Skins begins, we see a panning shot of the main character Tony, under his bed covers which has a naked man and woman as a design. From this the audience can tell that Tony is a sexualised character, this is then reinforced with the shot of him getting out of bed in his pants. The lack of clothes connotes he is sexual, or not concerned by the way he looks, in fact this may be the opposite, Tony finds himself attractive and likes the way he looks. From the mise en scene set inside the house, we can see that Tony is very organised, with his shirts folded away immaculately and even his bed covers are very flat and neat. Tony may be represented as almost having OCD, however after watching further into the programme, he is represented as a modern, metro sexual teenager. This then contrasts to his father who is the stereotypical man. He swears, he is big and hairy with a beer belly and loses his temper to show his dominance in the household, despite being undermined by his son. The mother is also a stereotype