Critical investigation and linked production idea's

1.How are current social panics surrounding teenagers represented in post-watershed television?
- Opening sequence for british teen drama , aired on E4 - directed at ages 15-27
Skins , Misfits , Shameless , Inbetweeners

2-How is mental illness represented in soap operas? and is it glamorised ?
-Documentary focusing on mental illness and how it is percieved by the society compared to what it actually is.
Hollyoaks , Eastenders

BEST IDEA :
How are current social panics revolving around teenagers represented in post-watershed television?

Opening sequence for britisg teen drama , aired on E4 - Directed at ages 15-27.

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-All ket texts - E4 : reputation for younger audience m themes
- well respected , loyal audience , mainstream
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-skins + inbetweeners = teen drama

• representation of current issues
• current music
• recent clothing/trends
• friend groups:popular/unpopular

-Shameless = drama/comedy - real lifeportrayal > exagerated (comedy)
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Social issues ( teen crime , drug abuse , benefit fraud) , teenagers , mental illness , homosexuals , imigrants , lower class , middle class , upper class = Fair in some cases.
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Skins + inbetweeners = 15-27 (primary) & 35-45 (secondary)
Shameless = 16-24 (Secondary) & 30-50 (primary)
Uses and gratifications : personal (identification), entertainment (escapism)
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S Social panic : rise in teenage pregnancy , drug abuse , hoodies/yobs
H Changes in representations , expected behaviours in past 10 years
E Teen independence - Benefirs (child support , council housing , job seekers , income support) , Hostels , EMA
P A.S.B.O's , increased smoking age , school compulsary age 16

Issues & debates
- Representations and stereotypes
- moral panis
-media effects
-regulation and control

Theories
- Gender and ethnicity
-Audience and genre