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The O.C
Skins
i have looked at the opening scenes of these 3 T.V Drama's. they have shown that the first two are popular and rich characters with stereotypical characters where as skins is more about the real troubles with a poorer theme to it and more in depth emotion and deeper story lines and is more serious and depressing with very graphic scenes included. where as the first two are more child friendly and lighter story line. they all have in common that the program is all about a group of friends. setting is particularly important as people watch the program for the image of LA and California. where as Skins is more edgy not so much about the settings and the opening is all about flicking images and dark settings. where as the first two are more bright and vibrant and happy settings with smiling happy people. it is more of a fantasy image rather than a real life image with their mansions and hot beaches and huge parties that they attend all the time. Skins is more edgy and real life in average houses and cold wet England that we are used to. the characters are all of the teenage age in Skins but in the other two they also include the parents in the dramas that occur whereas in Skins they only rely on themselves for support it doesn't show their parents getting involved in any of their troubles. this is another unconventional thing and a thing that is linked with the stereotypical wealth of the characters that they are normally not looked after as much and get themselves into trouble whereas on the other side the other two dramas are completely opposite as they get their drama from their parents at work all the time, so a convention of the teenage drama is issues of the parent not being there but in the unconventional drama it is for a different reason that the parents arn't there, it's for nor reason at all they either have troubles or just don't care bout their child, where as the wealthier parents miss quality time with their children for the wellness of them by providing them with everything they wanted.

waterloo road clip
Character Representation
this clip shows from the very beginning shows the characters representations. It opens with the teacher who is refereeing who uses a very sarcastic tone in her speech and backs away from the situation, so she does not give the team the full support they need by the scary opposition. Whereas the coach of the team has a good look at the opposition before saying his strong speech to the students. Then one of the male students runs onto the pitch purposely after the other ones so the reaction of the other boys is shown on camera. Two boys react as the 'hard' boys and hsout their opinion and say 'why is he here' suggesting that they are more important than him as they are on the rugby team and he should not have the right to be on there. then the coach quiets they boys quickly which shows that he has authority over them. Even though they have big mouths and the other students are scared of them, they are still scared of the teacher as he has the right to take them off the rugby team where they clearly want to be. The two boys seem to be friends but one is more aggressive to another team player and says how he never wants his sister to be touched, then his 'friend' turns around and winks at his sister suggesting that something is going on so therefore he is a sly character lying to his friend. And is a woman's man. Whereas his friend  wants to keep his image as the scary image and wants no one to be above him as he feels he will be in control. The boy who also came on late also looked behind to his girlfriend to show he had more of a heart and a kind person with a smile rather than a solid stern face.