Skins Representation

I'm analyzing  3 different characters in this scene and focusing on the:

• Mise en scene
• Camera angles
• Music

Tony

Straight away when we see Tony we realize that he might be bi sexual as his quilt cover has a man and a woman printed on the cover and Tony was lying in the middle of them. Also at the beginning of this clip we see Tony has a set routine for looking at the older woman across the road when she is getting changed but we then see that they may have a connection, also he is able to look after his younger sister, Effie which brings to mind that he is a nice lad that looks after his family. My first proper impression is that he definitely has some conflict with his dad, he enjoys annoying him which makes Tony seem very confident.

 Tony isn't a normal teenage boy because his room was amazingly tidy and things had their own places in his bedroom. From this we begin to think that he may be OCD meaning he has to have everything clean and in place. His costume is individual, its not what you would expect a teenage boy to wear, as in the parts that we see him his clothes are just general and slightly boring:

• Navy blue jumper
• Red t-shirt
• Chinos
• White canvas shoes

The music that he plays is digetic as its from his own stereo and it reflects him as a person as the song is pretty old but he seems to still enjoy it., meaning it was synchronous. 

The camera angles used for Tony are mostly wide/mid shots because the director wants us to see the scenery like his bedroom which worked as i noticed that Tony doesn't have normal posters like the stereotypical teenage boy, e.g. the normal posters would be from Nuts, having naked women on the walls or having music posters. However Tony has posters from back in the 60's that don't relate to sex or gaming, he also reads intelligent books therefore we begin to understand that Tony is actually very clever.

Effie

Tony's sister Effie however is completely different from him, we first see her walking towards the house from maybe having a nigh out as her costume is messy and her make up is all smudged may be suggesting she has been kissing boys. She has a good relationship with her brother as he looks out for her meaning she knows she can get away with going out at night without her parents finding out. After Effie comes in the house we dont really see much of her as she goes up to bed and puts on her bed clothes before 'dad' walks in. This shows us that she is a sneaky/cheeky girl who likes being out and about and doesnt really care about school. 

The camera angles used on her are high angles, this is where she is looking up into Tony's room waiting for the all clear signal, then when she is in her room we get a mid shot of her room showing the audience that there is a huge contrast between her and her brothers room. Effie has a dark room which reflects her personality also, there are clothes screwed up everywhere suggesting that she is always having late nights out.

Dad-Harry Enfield

The first impressions you get from him is that he is short tempered and that he finds Tony annoying as he is always shouting and swearing, he is made out as being a mug as Tony mugs him off when he locks the bathroom door and climbs out of the window when his dad is waiting outside the bathroom door. The reason for this is that Skins is aimed at teenagers and so they have made the dad a different type of parent, he doesn't act like one. His costume is weird in the first 4 minutes of this episode, you never really see him in a top, showing us he's an even bigger mug.