Skins

Creating a Skins character

Today’s media is forever going on about how the youth 'are going off the rails,' indulging in drugs, alcohol, cigarettes and 'unsuitable behaviour.' One programme which explores and portrays this theme, and is directed at the audience the media are implying this upon is channel 4's, Skins. For part of my AS media studies, we had to look at this series, and the different types of characters that are explored, and then to finally create one of our own.

My character is named Julia Castbridge, coming from a background of devout Christians, and private education. As an only child, her parents expect only the very best behaviour, and to act like a lady, with her priority’s lying with her education and her dedication to the church.

However, she has just been enrolled at the local sixth form college, dues to their sudden move of town, and the all-girls convent school being full until next semester. It is here that she is introduced to a whole new world of drugs, sex, and alcohol. This eventually leads her to living two separate lives of partying, and Sunday mass.

The two final photographs I chose shows her two separate lives combined. I photographed her round the side of a church, against a stone that read; This stone was laid on 1st June 1963 by the Revern Miller M.A to the glory of God. This shows she is bound to the church as if she cannot escape, almost as if she is symbolising the devil, going against Gods will and everything he counted for.