Fish tank

• What connotations does the name of the film have? ‘Fish tank’

• How are youth represented in this film?

• How are adults represented in this film?

• How does your opinion change/ develop towards the youngsters and the adults throughout the duration of this film?

Where do representations come from?

• Who do young people identify with and develop their ideologies from?

• How do the adults in fish tank influence the choices made by the young people in this film?

• How does this film show a different point of view of young people and how representations of youth may be misunderstood in the media?

• How does this film challenge stereotypes of young people in this social class category?

• How could we use this film in the exam to argue how the media show an unfair representation of youth.

• How could we discuss the ‘form’ of media in our exam? Would we be exposed to such venerability of teenagers in this category (social class) if not choosing to consume this film?