The Conclusion
Teenagers are being represented in these posters as wild, rebellious, out-of-control, troubled and overall very complex characters.
This portrayal is somewhat realistic, but it only shows one side to young people today and could be described as kind of biased. Not all teenagers behave in this wild rebellious way, and not all young people of the UK are as sexualised as the poster leads people to believe. I think that these posters are a negative representation of teenagers. This is because they only show a biased one-sided view of teenagers and the images are rather controversial. However, it does help to show the struggles that young people go through in their everyday lives that older people sometimes forget about or fail to recognise.
Some people might say that this representation of teenagers is inappropriate and too controversial. This view would probably been taken up by the older, more mature audience, people who probably have children of their own. I say this because one of the posters was banned by the ASA for being offensive and claimed it "could cause serious or widespread offence". This came after many complaints were received “that the ‘orgy’ poster condoned underage sex and that the images would encourage children to copy the behaviour”. This poster was quickly removed and shows how the public, and mainly the older audience of Channel 4 felt about these images.
However the younger viewers and members of the public seemed okay with the posters, as the ratings for the show were not affected.
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