Learning aim B: Technical Areas.

The target audience/ audiences for this skins extended trailer, are normally teenagers, but secondary audience for this show could be older adults who now work and watch to simply reminisce back to when they were maybe like that and is now used as a form of nostalgia, the purpose of this teenage drama is to simple create entertainment, cause conversation amongst peers, and also find ways of dealing with different social problems that people may go through in their everyday lives, also the younger audiences who watch this also get the vibe that the older people actually behave like this which makes them think is normal and this is important because this is the hypodermic needle theory being put into play as the program is manipulating certain people to believe that certain things are normal.

 The lighting and colour used in this trailer reflects the mood of the character because for example when the rebel amongst the group decided to look for trouble and light up a flare, the whole essence of the red is to simply connote that his presence brings danger and someone to most likely not be affiliated with. The location of this whole scene is extremely important as they know that they are in a place where they are not supposed to be which therefore makes the whole narrative more interesting. All the characters are framed together in a group when entering the scene for the first time which shows that they are all friends, and most likely close. In certain scenes during this extended trailer, there are parts where the camera goes out of focus simply because the director is trying to place us in the scene and he camera going out of focus is very effective as we as the audience now know that they are most-likely intoxicated or on some sort of ‘high’. Another reason as to why the directors like to place the audience in the scene is to stop confusion because for example in the final scene when they all decide to jump of off the roof, I did not really know who was jumping off of the roof because it was quite sudden but then I could tell that during the editing process the director chose to highlight each individual character so that the audience would know who they were and also the reason as to why the camera angle used during this part of the scene is to show that they managed to escape from that predicament that they were in which would obviously make them feel as though they are higher than all the others in which they most likely they will feel superior.

The pace of the editing can be quickened up at times but also slowed down again simply to create effect and once again to put us in the same environment as the audience so for example if the group is running the movement of the camera would clearly show that they are running which puts us; the audience in their position.