REPRESENTATION OF AGE

Positive and negatives of youth and old age


Positives & negatives of old age:
Positive
Caring
Family orientated
Sweet
Lots of time to do what they want
Pensions
Seats given up
Help to cross the road
Help with shopping bags
People generally nice to them
Own freedom
Wisdom
Unsuspicous of old people
Trusting

Negative
They're Frail
Weak
Be very Forgetful
Often ill
Be disrespected
Underestimated about abilities
Health
Vunerable
Scared for safety
Set in their ways
Easy target for crime
Victims
Fragile
Sometimes mentally incompetent
Not in control of old body
Lonely
Dependant


Positive & negative of youths
Positive
Whole life ahead
Long future
More of a social life
Active
Strong
Physically able
Adventurous
Free willing
Less of  a sense of danger

Negatives
Less respected
Less freedom
Naive
Shown as very dangerous
Can be very rude
Lazy
Hormonal
Vunerable
Dependant




MISE EN SCENE
Elderly- Bland clothing for old people, covered up, grey hair, glasses, walking sticks, comfortable shoes, shawl, talcum powder, perms.
Middle age- Bit more scruffy if they're a mother, would be represented in suits, looking proffessional, look like they care about themselves.
Youth- school uniform, fashionable hair, lots of make-up. Wear brands like Adidas,Topshop, Primark.


CINEMATOGRAPHY
Elderly- Play with depth of focus to reflect their eyesight. Shallow depth of field.
Close ups might be used to show all the wrinkles on thier faces.
Youth- Canted angles to show drunkness, or drug abuse. Over the shoulder to show gossip or following them to mug them.



SOUND
Elderly- shuffling feet on floor sounds, grunting. Dialogue that reflects their aches and pains. Tutting at young people. Slower old music. Lots of quiet, foley sound could be used, to suggest peace and tranquility.
Youth- Slang dialogue. Verbal abuse. Cursing. Music is going to be much faster.


EDITING
Elderly- Editing is going to be slow paced, quite boring, reflect on their lives, more likely to get reaction shots from older people- more important/wise.
Youth- Short sequences, jump cuts to show lively active life



SKINS CLIP

running active
in pubs having fun, excited at everything
sqwaring very giggly
demanding for more drink, drunk
getting looks
[;aying cards
hazy behind them- canted angles
out of focus
violence- bloody nose- what the enjoy doing
thrown through glass
police officers
youth on the run
lots of smoke following them
everyone looks at them when they walk in, gives them dodgy looks0 shows theyre being looked down, shallow focus, only focusing on them,
he's kissing her in an alleyway, don't care where they get it on, almost like animals- no shame
Diegetic sound of things smashing and sirens, and chaos, shows that that is what takes over a teenagers life, things you're going to hear when teenagers are around.


There is diegetic sound of bottles and glass smashing and sirens and chaos (though this is probably foley sound), over the non diegetic music. This shows that this is what is most commonly found in a teenagers life and these are the negative sounds you're going to hear when teenagers are around. It also shows how unpredictable teenagers are, going from laughing one minute and smashing the place up the next minute.
The camera angles are canted, to show they're on drugs and drunk, which gives the connotation of how irresponsible they are. A lot of the cuts are in shallow focus, focusing on the teenagers with the background blurry, to show how un-aware they are of everything else going on because they're so drunk.