Introduction

I have chosen to do my case study on “Teenage Boys” I have chosen this because. I’m a teenage boy myself, and I feel the way the media represents us is not fair because all teenage boys seem to be shown as in the media is violent and destructive! I wanted to find out how they are represented in all forms of media. TV, Film, and News.  

Film

In the film Kidulthood made in 2006, the film is about gangs of teenage boys. And from watching the film which contains sex, guns, knives, bullying and violence. This is all aimed at what the media think teenage boys do daily. This creates a negative stereotype on teenage boys and it will be hard for people to believe the truth if they don’t know the person that well. 

In this pictures it shows teenagers holding baseball bats and having there hoods up, there facial expressions show them looking quite angry and viscous 

News 

In the news and in the newspapers you never hear when a teenager has done well. All the news will tell you about is if we have done badly or you don’t hear about us at all! You hear that teenage boys go around carrying knives and guns and causing trouble. When people hear about all that bad stuff and only the bad stuff it sticks in peoples head and puts a negative stereotype on us. It can also make an impact on our society because we will been as if we cannot be trusted and that we will be danger in our local community 

TV

On a TV programmer called Waterloo Road it shows the both kinds of teenagers in there school lives. You have the ones that are always getting into trouble and making the wrong decisions. And then you have the ones that make the right decisions and try the hardest in school. I think this shows the way teenagers are represented in the media well because it shows both sides and this can put a out a positive stereotype on teenagers.    

Conclusion 

My conclusion is that the media shows a negative representation on teenagers in all kinds of media and i think that in this case study i have shown  how this is shown and i have proved the truth on the teenage representation.