SuGaR RuSh ExTrAcT

MeDia LanGuaGe...

The camera focuses on Kim and Saints facial expressions. This allows the audience to identify with the characters and also let them know how the characters feel. Fast, pacey cuts tend to occur when two charcters are in the scene. It cuts to saint and back to kim. This could pararell hoe they feel, jumpy, excited and also builds a sense of anticipation. The opening scene is set outdoors on the beach of Brighton. By doing this it allows the audience to familarise where the episode is set and what type of atomosphere it will be. The lighting is natural bright, high keylighting as it day time. During the clip, the setting changes and moves to a busy dynamic atomsphere of a night club. There is low key lighting and the disco lights reflect the shadows of other people in the scene. This could connote the secrets that lie within Kim about her love for Saint. There is diegetic sound of the club music which is pararell to what is going on. To show drastic facial expressions the camera zooms into Kim's face to emphasise on how she feels.


InStiTuTion...

The show is shown at 10.50pm on channell four and is based on Julie Burchill's novel Sugar Rush. The adverts are shown on the channel four with clips that give an insight on what the show is about.

GenRe

Teen drama and can be compared to other shows such as 'The L word', 'Bad Girls', and Finger Smith'. The entire show is based on kim and sugar chaotic lives. The directers did this deliberatly in order to give different audiences an insight on how hectice a teenage lesbian life can be. In a way it tries to resemble teenage life in a real way as the show tackles serious issues such as unprotected sex, drugs and alocohol.

RePreSenTaTioN

The Clip represents two single women who want a relationship with one another. It represents teenage lifestyle and how they believe living their life is smoking drinking and going clubbing. It set in a typical place where teenagers are likely to be found. No men are seemed to be shown in the scene which reinforces the whole idea that the patrichal soicety no loner exists and that women are not equivelent to men. They are no longer the ones in power. It also represents strong white women and how they are confident with their sexuality. Its a total different representation as no other show has focused so deeply on teenage lesbians. Shows such as Bad girls have elements of lesbianism but do not expose a great deal.

Audience

Channel 4 has scheduled sugar rush to be on at 10:50pm, which can be considered as late for the primary audience. Their primary targeted audience is young teenagers that can relate to the issues that the characters tackle. The show is shown that late due to the strong language and scenes to sexual nature. The show does not target a specfic audience, but most viwers would be teenagers. All ethicnities are targeted as their is a mixture of different ethnic characters in the show For example, Saint, who comes from a french background and Sugar who comes from a mixture of Black and White. The show offers Voyerestic pleasures to the audience.

Ideology and Values

Feminism Vs Patrichal and Family VS Independence. The show has positive aspects as it informs more people about Lesbianism and how common it is for people to feel that way.

Narrative

Sugar Rush explores the world of Kim and her earth-shattering lust for the gorgeous and sassy Maria Sweet, otherwise known as Sugar. And if Sugar wasn't enough to blow Kim's mind, there's also her dysfunctional, embarrassing family - a mini-freak for a brother, an obsessively house-proud dad and a mum who's behaving as if she's the one who's 15 years old. Each episode is a different journey inside Kim's world as her wry observations take us into the mind of a screwed up, loved up, lustful adolescent experiencing the bright lights of Brighton and the rush of forbidden love for the first time. It follows a linear stucture, each show continues from the last episode.