Content Analyses

Skins

Medium: Television

Genre of Program: Comedy-drama

Skins', a British teen drama, is created by Jamie Brittain and Bryan Elsley. In this show, it follows a group of teenagers in Bristol, South West England, through the most important two years of sixth form (Prep for GCSE' A levels). It covers what "English" teenagers go through during their teenage life. Issues such as dysfunctional families, sexual orientation identity, drug abuse, death, and mental illness; including eating disorders. Skins also portrays British teens trying to grow up, find love, and happiness despite the influence of their parents, and other adult authorities.   

Name of Character Viewed	Effy	Cook	Freddie	Katie	Emily
Male or Female	Female	Male	Male	Female	Female
Main Character?	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
Occupation	Student	Student	Student	Student	Student
Level of Education	High School	High School	High School	High School	High School
Race	White	White	Hispanic	White	White
Marital Status	In a relationship. (Off and on with Freddie and Cook)	Single (Fooling around with a lot of girls)	Complicated (Does not know whether he was dating Effy)	Single (Fooling around with boys)	Single
Age	17	17	17	17	17
Number of Children	-	-	-	-	-
Appearance	Very attractive	"Cool" looking	Handsome	Pretty	Pretty
Body Type	Skinny	Healthy/ Buff	Healthy	Average	Average
Personal Characteristics	Emotional Goth Calm Very sexually- active Independent	Violence Havoc Trouble maker Daring Sexually - active Independent Stubborn	Gentlemen Nice Caring Smart Independent	Must look pretty for the boys Happy Stubborn	Confuse Nice Caring Sad Not as popular as the twin sister, Katie
Role of Character in Narrative	Mischievous, Drug addict. A girl that does not care about anything.	He is a student who doesn't care about anything. He is rude, and also love starting a fight. He is very sexually active.	A gentlemen, who respects girls a lot. Generous. Very sensitive.	A girl who gets a lot of boys. Her twin sister is the total opposite of her.	She is really confuse of her sexuality; whether she is straight or gay. She is not as popular as Katie.
Impact of character in Narrative	Positive	Positive	Positive	Positive	-