Task 1:

1) In “skins” the teenagers are presented to be joyful and adventurous making most of their life. This is shown through their body language as they are shown smiling and doing card tricks. The location compared to “bully” is also different as most of the scenes are outside showing that the teenagers are adventurous and that their life not revolve around the their college. Their customer makes the teenage characters look anti-social. On the other hand, the teenagers are shown smoking shows deviant behaviour.

However, in “bully” the teens are showing being aggrieve to each other, this stands up to the game’s title as “bully”. The characters are shown in their school uniform and in the school itself which shows that their life is revolved around their school. In a scene a student is showing saying soon this school will be ours” this shows that the teenagers life is revolved around their college.

2)The media text can be seen as a moral panic as parents may think that their children playing games such as “bully” or watching drama shows such as “skins” will influence their kids to do what ever the characters do in the media text. For example, “bully” may influence teenagers to be rebels and be trouble makers, this will cause a moral panic.

On the other hand, “skins” may influence teenagers to have sex and smoke. This will cause moral panic as it will make teenagers put their life in danger by smoking which then can lead to drugs and the show can also influence teenagers to have sex which can lead to teen pregnancy.

3)New digital media has given younger audience the opportunities to shape heir own media representation, this is done by giving teenagers a verity of media text to select from, all consisting of different themes and concepts. For example, “skins” will be targeted at free spirits as the show is about living life to the fullest . however, “bully” will be targeted at arm chair rebels as it shows teenagers rebelling against adults and other teenagers.