OH- Representation and ideological discourse, sticks and stones

How i percived the video to show some representations of white teenagers, which are the social groups being represented in our video.

The obvious social group being represented in this music video is teenage white males, the main character is your typical "Jack the Lad", them running threw back alleys may connote that they have been in some trouble, and are running away not to get caught. Smoking normally connotes rebellion, in the video you can clearly see the Jamie T Smoking whilst sitting down in his back garden. this reinforces the idea that whilst there running threw the alleys there running away from someone because they have caused some type of trouble because of their rebellious nature.

There is a cut to Jamie T with a group of similar age boys in what appears to be a car park behind a warehouse, not your average place to hang out, this could imply that they are trying not to get noticed or be seen, possibly because there doing something illegal? Already in the video its apparent that there is quite a negative view that had been portrayed on young white males, if you look at it in a politically correct view, there not conforming to society. however to some people who think this is admirable behaviour they somewhat come over as role models, which could be quite a bad influence on our future generations.

Throwing a cup of a milkshake across the platform shows antisocial behaviour, and putting his fingers up, shows his unconformity to the way he is suppose to act in modern society. The ideology that all teenage white males are trouble makers and ravel in antisocial behaviour is being reinforced here, the video shows unconformity to society, rebellion and anti social behaviour which is exactly what stereotype is being portrayed by the teens in the video. for example when they all smash a window, possibly because there drunk since they have been shown to be drinking beer and seem intoxicated, this reinforces the negative ideology of teens being involved in anti sociable behaviour.

Why are these representations and ideologies relevant to our research?

Although the general behaviours of the teens shown in this video arent what we are aiming to portray in our video, the reason that i chose this track is because all of the cast is teenage white males, which is the exact same cast that we will be using in our video.
The general stereotypes portrayed on young people are reinforced in this video, however in our video we wish to challenge these ideologies and show how not all teenagers are yobs, and that some have different opinions on how they portray themselves to society and dont want to be part of the stereotype placed on them, we hope to show this by the performance being emotional and well acted showing tallent and also in our narrative, of going to work, conforming to the rules of society.