E20

#E20

The representations that I can gather of young people from watching eastenders spin off e20 is overall negative as they shown to be delinquents through their actions as they go against rules set by the care home, (go against the norms and values of society), from the way they dress to the way they talk shows how they disobey authority portraying themselves in a negative way, therefore not being a fair representation as most of the teens shown within the webisode are portrayed in a negative limelight    

Producers and audiences may be more interested in negative stereotypes of young people as its what audiences expect therefore producers are more interested in portraying the negative stereotypes of young people, this can be linked to verisimilitude which refers to what an audience expects from a text in terms of content and forms/conventions. The quality of appearing to be true or real, however producers may use some form of mediation where audiences see the producers version of reality, in this case being the negative stereotypes of young people within the show e20 as they have been over exaggerated. Also some audiences enjoy watching negative stereotypes of young people as it provides entertainment (escapism) for them, also some audiences may see themselves reflected in the text (personal identity).

However a positive example of representations of youths in British television would be the show Waterloo road which subverts the negative stereotypical portrayal youths, as the programme shows hard-working students in school rather than on the streets causing havoc. however the show portrays some aspect of youth delinquency as it shows some students who form an anti-school subculture, who achieve through illegitimate means. The uniforms is another way   Another example would be the show skins which heavily portrays youths to be deviant as it portrays them to be promiscuous as they encounter in a number of sexual activities, it also shows them to be feral as they go against the law by stereotypically causing anti-social behaviour as they drink an excess amount of alcohol and take drugs, this negative representation has been associated heavily with youths and has been overrepresented within British television.