Title sequence analysis of skins

0:30 seconds long

55-58 shots long

The "Skins (generation)" title sequence shows the characters, their lifestyle, what they do, a bit of the location but it's quite vague. It also gives away some narrative clues e.g. two characters kissing, characters partying, characters smoking, so it gives an idea to the audience of what the programme may contain and may be about.  

There is also a lot of colours used, mainly bright colours, especially yellow. Bright colours tend to connote happiness and positivity, yellow usually connotes youth, fun, happiness and cheerful emotions. This again could be linked to the narrative due to the characters shown looking quite young possibly 17-20 years old and they seem to be enjoying themselves at the parties and in each others company. Other colours used were red and blue with a bit of white all at once, the red could connote love which was one of the many shots shown between two characters but those three specific colours could connote the Union Jack (British flag). So it's possible that these colours aren't just colours of emotion but colours of ethnicity, culture, nationality and backgrounds of the many characters within the programme which links to the programmes name "Skins". 

With the editing a lot of the shots had layers and effects on them of lens flare, some shots overlapped another and then disappeared, a lot of the time shots were being shown all over the screen, it confuses the audience and makes them look around the whole screen rather than focus on one area and due to the cuts being so fast the audience wouldn't be able to see every shot in detail in one sitting, they would have to watch the title sequence at least three to four times or go back and pause it at every shot to see them in enough detail and linking this to the music which seems to have random screeches/rewinding sounds it could connote the characters lives to be all over the place and anything could happen so the audience should expect the unexpected, it connotes that they are young and uncontrollable. Also with the song, there are no lyrics which could connote a lack of direction or voice, the characters have no higher power or voice to symbolise them or to command them to do something.

At the end the characters are seen playing with balloons which are linked to parties so throughout the title sequence we see a lot of characters kissing, hugging, partying and smoking which is most likely the three main themes of the programme and/or narrative of the series. We also see the characters letting go of the balloons they were holding, each balloon could represent the characters and they let the balloons float off which could connote that the characters are free like the balloons and are hoping to someday fly up high (metaphorically), possibly wanting to achieve success and wealth.