Stereotypes The Inbetweeners

• Easily spotted characteristics of a group or place that then becomes a branding for everyone.
• Geek - someone who wears glasses, someone who is clever/intelligence/cleverness (weird) - like technical stuff and have obsessions with games
• Woman - they don't wear a lot of clothing, they are venerable 
• Lads - Sport obsession, DIY, crude womanisers,
• For the three labels above, write down how they would stereotypically look and act. 

The Inbetweeners

• Audience - What is their age, gender, psychographics?
• Mode of address - What is the tone, how does it make you feel?
• Genre - what genre is it, what generic conventions are in it? How do you know? Cinematography, sound (dialogue) mise en scene etc.
• Narrative - linear or non linear, enigma (puzzles?)
• Representation of men, young people stereotype? nerd/geek/typical bloke? what bits show that (cinematography, costume, sound etc) 

Generic Conventions of Comedy 

Funny props - yellow car & car door falling off
Funny Costumes - monkey costume, vest and speedo's combo, Neil's lack of combo - naked
Funny Dialogue - "Inconsiderate arse holes"  "Follow that clunge moblie" 
Funny Narrative - Enigmas - Will the car door get fixed? Neil says he's sisters boyfriend works at BP - Will having a rant about the front seat of the rollar coaster (midshot) and then a (wideshot) reveals that disabled people are sat in the front and then he feels bad. 
There's a cut to a hearse, and then a cut to their faces when the car door falls out, the editing used in this  programme makes us laugh. 

Representations of young men
Costume - The characters are wearing their uniforms, but Jay, Simon and Neil are wearing they're uniforms more laid back, without their blazers and their ties (Jay's tie is really small and short, this shows that he doesn't care about his appearance at school) the others uniforms aren't perfect but Will is wearing his uniform smart and following the rules on how to wear your uniform correctly. Simon and Jay is wearing jeans, t-shirts and hoodies this represents stereotypes teenage boys, Will dresses differently he wears shirts and dresses more smartly. 

Dialogue - "Simon it's me nan she want's know if you need help parking" "Rollar Coasters and Tits this is going to be brilliant" & "Put your wellies on cos we're gonna be knee deep in clunge" This dialogue shows that all teenage boys are interested in is sex and girls. 
"I don't think it's too bad" (Will says about Simon's car) his hands are in his pockets and he is wearing a polo shirt, this makes him look and seem much older.
"Hey, lets not argue, let's get in there...have some fun" this shows that Will acts much older than his peers.

Narrative - The episode starts with a recap of a previous episode,  this is known as a flashback and isn't showing a simple linear storyline. Although the rest of the episode is showing a simple narrative, Simon passes his driving test, there's an enigma code "Simon never did tell us what happened on his driving test" This is leaving the audience guessing about what happened with him and his driving instructor. The car he gets is bright yellow and isn't a great car, the audience are expecting to see an amazing car but then their is a wide shot of the car and we see that it's a funny car. The school bully spits drink onto Simon's car, maybe younger people can relate to The Inbetweeners and what they're going through. They use a voice over of Will's voice during The Inbetweeners it makes you feel like he is telling the audience the story of their day on episodes. At the end of the episode their is a flashback at this point the programme is non linear and then it goes back to the moment which becomes linear again.

Actions - When Neil is in the monkey suit and their is a wasp trapped in his costume, he falls to the floor shouting "Not my cock, not my cock" and is thrusting into the air, this represents the teenage boy stereotype. Also his friends don't help him, they just laugh at him and find the fact he is in pain hilarious. 

Men watch The Inbetweeners because they talk about girls, they can relate to the characters and are familiar with the language/slang that they use in the programme, the things they talk about are what they talk about with their friends and it's the only programme that really represents stereotypical teenage boys. 

Girls would watch this because they also feel the same as boys, they can relate to the programme and the characters.