Most, if not all, contemporary radio dramas represent certain social groups. In our radio drama, we have represented young adults as a collective identity. In this collective group we have represented both young males and females aged around eighteen of a mixed ethnicity.
In most media products, teenagers and young adults are represented in very much a negative light. For example, television programmes such as ‘Skins’ cast a negative and unrealistic reflection on the lives of most teenagers. In such programmes, this stereotypical view is represented through, on the most part, trouble makers. Young people are represented as people just out to cause as much trouble as possible whilst always on the lookout for drugs and alcohol. Whilst this representation may be true to a small minority of young adults, the majority of real-life teenagers do not behave as such media products lead us to believe.
With our radio drama, we decided to go against the negative representation as described above. We chose to represent the young person in more of a positive light, whilst using far more realistic scenarios than other media products do. We have represented the young adult as perhaps not wholly responsible, but who is clearly not a trouble maker.
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