Denotation/Connotation reading of skins posters

Characters
The young boy is lying under the water in the bath,he looks really pale and gives the impression that he may be dead or it the middle of an attempt to kill himself.The poster suggests he may be the main character in the programme and it also hints at a potential storyline.

Additional Props
The props beside the bath are all things that you usually find in a bathroom,this suggests the sense of realism in the programme.The toiletries give the impression that the programme tries to get as close to reality as possible


Settings
The setting in this poster is in a bathroom.this is made clear from the sink and bath.The walls look damp and the whole atmosphere is dark and gloomy it has a very negative feel towards it.The character fits in to this environment,which says a lot about him ,he may be a dark and dangerous person.


Interior Design
The layout of the poster allows the audience to learn more about the character and their role ,this poster sums up that the character is trying to kill them self .The image clearly shows the boy's underneath the water still as if he is dead.

Colour
The darkness of the room is what creates the dark and gloomy atmosphere,there is no colour on the poster except from the advertisement details and the E4 logo.This create a negative mood and suggests that the programme is based upon several negative events.


Lighting

The absence of colour is replaced by the artificial light that shines onto the boy in the bath.The lighting enhances the main focus of the poster and it suggests that the atmosphere is rather creepy as only a little bit of light brings it to life.

Characters
In this poster there is a girl in her underwear ,who looks quite reckless as she is surrounded by several teenagers half naked in a peculiar bedroom.The main focus is on the girl which suggests she may be a main character.


Additional Props
The only visible props in the poster is the lamp which is placed on the bedside table,the bed and picture hanging above the lamp on the wall.The props are all things you expect to find in any normal bedroom expect whats inside the bedroom is not normal at all.


Settings
The setting of this poster is a bedroom,which several adolescents are in accumulating the space in an extraordinary manner,The positioning of the characters in this glum bedroom gives the sense of a disorientation of their lives (The chaos is reflective of their personalities).


Interior Design
The layout of the poster is good at portraying the chaos and mayhem that teenagers get up too.They are all over the place which makes you intrigued as to how they got there and what their original motives were.


Colour
There is not much colour used in this poster ,but the simplistic colours accompany the implied wild nature of the teens.It shows that although they are wild their clothes and the atmosphere says something different.It raises the theme of seeming and appearances ,it seems peaceful but in actual fact its not.


Lighting
The room is lit up by a lamp this shows a brighter atmosphere and creates an ambient mood,despite the chaos the atmosphere created by the gentle touch of light brightens up the whole room and the whole poster.


Conclusions
In these posters the way in which this teenagers are being portrayed is quite gruesome although it is not a common thing for a teenager to drown them self,it still happens so in a way it raises awareness of an unusual occurrence.The representation is negative as death and suicide cannot be anything more than negative its an awful thing to think about let alone look at.The promiscuity implied by the other poster would also raise alot of concerns as underage sex is pretty much a taboo in society.


The responses from the audience regarding these posters would be very controversial and could cause quite an uproar the explicitness of their nature would cause concerns for parents as well as elderly people or adults of a mature age ,especially parents they would not want their children to be subjected to such a powerful statements made by the two posters,the idea of censorship would be considered,The two themes represented in this poster are the two most unspoken about or euphemistically spoken topics :sex and death.