As the opening of the bully trailer begins, non diegetic sound is played to create happy atmosphere until the scene of the teacher speaking to Hopkins as he is being shouted at by the teacher for his rebellious behaviour. He is portrayed as a rebellious teenager who creates an anti-social subculture in the school. The montage of medium shots of the 'bully' harassing school kids and creating havoc in the science laboratory injects messages into the audience that teenage boys are wild and troublesome. Hopkins is represented as someone to fear as he is a bully.
Similarly in the opening of skins the teenagers are also represented as promiscuous and rebellious teenagers, smoking and representing bad influences for other teenagers. The montage introduces the different characters who we gain an insight to their life of smoking, bisexual encounters and acting promiscuous.
Overall the two representations are similar in the way they highlight negative representations of teenagers as this brings a negative stereotype to all teenagers as not all teenagers are like this.
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