- The strobe light effect at the beggining of the episode reveals the idea of a teenage culture represented as rebelliousness through fast cuts showing flashes of teens dancing, snogging, fighting and drinking. This portrays them to be rebellious and shocking.
- Effy and Cook are seen in many different shots drinking serious amounts of alcohol, in one scene Effy is drinking straight vodka which represents the idea that she is use to drinking this amount of alcohol where as normally people would not be able to drink such strong amounts of alcohol without mixing it with another non-alcoholic drink.
- In another scene Freddie is seen smoking a spliff, which represents the drug culture within the youth culture, many teens see weed as nothing serious and see no harm in doing it, and there is Fredie representing this smoking weed while he is supposed to be working.
- The idea of rebelling against adults is seen in this episode as Effy and Cook have ran away from home in order to be together, we then later see a scene of Effys mum talking about Effys unusual behaviour.
- The idea of youthful competition is seen many times in this episode. Fredie and Cook compete in a "Granny Race" in order to see who wins Effy as they are both in love with her. Also there is the scene with the bar man's son and Cook fighting for Effy then later competing in the race for Cooks fathers boat or his tab money at the local pub.
- The idea of youth always having close friendship groups is portrayed alot through this episode, they also have many nicknames for their friends or friendship groups etc, such as JJ calls him and the rest of the boys "the 4 musketeers". The pub owners son's friendship group also use a hand signal to represent their friendship and beliefs... this is like personal handshakes etc.
- The idea of teenagers being sloby is portrayed strongly, all the characters wear the same clothes throughout the episode (viewed as over a couple of days) even though they are dirty and ripped e.g. Cooks top being ripped and covered in blood from the fight.
- Rebelliousness is portrayed strongly, mostly through many different fighting scenes, the over use of alcohol, strong and abusive language and the general attitude towards other people.
- Youth relationships is portrayed very negatively, they seem to be very un-controling, shocking and cause nothing but trouble, this is portrayed by causing friction between the best friends Fredie and Cook. Also portrayed by Cook fighting another lad for dancing with Effy.
- The idea of Youth looking up to their elders is strongly portrayed, Cook and Effy went to live with Cooks father. Cook soon began getting in trouble with his dad and being viewed as scum e.g scabbing off free drinks at the bar, living off a boat as its cheap, trying to gain respect for his dad by doing wrong etc.
Overall in this series, Youth has been portrayed negatively through the use of representations. Many adults view youth as rebelious for excessive drinking, sleeping around, fighting etc and this is all portrayed strongly through the characters attitudes. However, in the first sequence where the strobe light effect is used, all these representations of the youth culture can be seen, such as the alchohol abuse, fighting, kissing etc, but the one thing that can not be seen is drugs, however the type of music being played can be related to the stereotype of the drug culture as we can see youth dancing, sweating and not caring as they just want to have fun. The skins series also follow the Todoroff theory as at the beggining (the equilibrium) its all fun and happy for Effy and Cook, then there is the disequilibrium when Effy dosnt want to be with Cook as he is in trouble and realises she loves Freddy, then there is the re-equilibrium when the friends are all re-united and Freddy and Effy get back together and they all go home.
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