Skins is a British teen drama that follows a group of teenagers in Bristol, South West England through the two years of sixth form. The controversial plotline explores issues including dysfunctional families, personality and eating disorders, substance abuse, sexuality, teenage pregnancy, mental illness and death. The show was created by father and son television writers Bryan Elsley and Jamie Britain.


The television drama of skins influenced the writing behind the project film as the actors used in our film was aged 16 to 20 and so we wanted the group to have the humor of a group of youths with bad language and commitment issues. One character that heavily influenced cast deciding in our film was the leading characters of tony in series one and two and cook in series three and four. These characters have the same values throughout the series however differ in opinion as cook is very boisterous and allows his fists and anger to get the better of him however tony is calm and collected and tends to use his intellect for the wrong reasons.


looking at the film this film has heavily influenced my ideas and uses many conventions that i will follow. i hope to use a hand held camera but as it would be used in films like 28 days later giving the sense of spectatorship and being verysimilitude.

the cameras provided for us are handheld anyway but i hope to use the camera correctly rather then it being wobbly as a mistake.
the film also uses the concept of fast moving zombies/infected which i belive is key in the film studies film me and mark are going to produce.