Waterloo Road clip

In todays lesson we focused on a clip from Waterloo Road, the focus was on the representation of age.
In the clip the first shot we see is in the main hall of the school, in this scene we see two students getting in trouble by an older teacher because they broke a camera, this shows that teenagers are more careless and aren't really too bothered about breaking other people's property. It is clear that the teacher is very patronising towards the students and this shows that he believes he is much better and wiser than they are due to this age and position in the school.

In another scene we see a girl attacking a boy, this is different to what we would see adults doing and this shows to the audience roughly how old the students are. Within this scene we see the boy have an asthma attack due to him being in an argument with the girl, this could show that teenagers aren't as strong as older people and are quite weak.

Due to the way that the teenagers are dressed we can see that they are school children and roughly how old they are (14-16), it is clear to see the difference from the teachers and the students in the clip because of the costumes, for example the teenage girls are wearing the stereotypical short skirts whereas the teachers are wearing trousers.

The way that the teachers talk to the children throughout clip is quite sarcastic as if they are little kids and this shows that the older people feel that they have  a lot of power over the younger people.
We see the girl getting quite upset over her family problems which again could show weakness in younger people as maybe an adult would just brush that off.

In another scene we see a pregnant girl who doesn't seem very happy about her situation, this could compare to an adult not making this mistake that she has made so again shows that teenagers aren't as clued up as adults.