300 Word Analysis Of The Opening Title Sequence For Skins

In the opening title sequence of Skins, there are many quick shots of the teenagers kissing and showing affection towards one another. This could connote how the teenager’s live are quite sexually orientated, how they are familiar with things of a sexual nature and also how they are involved and experience in relationships. The various shots of the teenagers and their lives are also very fast and quick paced. This could reflect the teenager’s personalities and behaviour, how they are extremely lively, active and energetic. However it could also be used in a fast paced manner to display the different aspects of the different teenagers’ day to day lives.
Quick shots of street signs are also incorporated within the opening title sequence, for example it has two street signs back to back displaying two opposite directions. These signs could signify the teenager’s decisions and choices in life, whether they make the right decisions and follow good, positive paths, or whether they make the wrong choices and lead a dull and gloomy one. The teenagers are also shown in the sequence as relaxing, chilling out with each other and smoking. This could connote how the teenagers are quite care-free, untroubled and have no real responsibilities. The teenager’s smoking could represent the interests of the teenagers and indicate how the teenagers don’t really care for themselves and may also signify their rebellious type ways. The colour that is maintained throughout the sequence is mainly blues and pinks representing both a male and female cast. This gives the audience a deeper knowledge of the program as it will be focusing around both boy and girl situations.
Another aspect which is included in the title sequence is a clock which I feel is very significant. The clock could represent the teenager’s lives and how they don’t realise that there time is quickly running out. They seem to live their life with no real worries or responsibilities yet they don’t know that soon they will have to take on a whole lot more.
The shot of the ‘Skins’ title is also quite significant, the title of Skins is white on a black background. The fact that the colour of the title is white could represent the teenagers’ purity, innocent and childlike ways, the black could then therefore show maybe some of the struggles in growing up or puberty, and how they are caught in living their life as a child or an adult. The fact that it is on a black background can also represent there manners in which the teenagers put forward, i.e. their dark and rebellious ways. The fact that the title is transparent is also quite important; this could imply how maybe some of the teenagers are transparent and how they may put up a front in their lives.