Sound.

Diegetic - natural sounds within a scene.

Non-diegetic - added to a scene - soundtrack. Potential problem: less realistic. Potential benefit: more dramatic.

Sound bridge - when sound which carries on over two scenes, literally creating a 'bridge' between events.

Incidental music - short sequence of sound to create an emotion/feeling.

Asynchronous sound - a 'natural' sound out of place and without a source.

Contrapunctual - sound which creates an opposite  emotion to the one on the screen.


Skins Notes.

enigma code - why is he awake?
camera angle - above him, zooming out (allows us to analyse it, creates the impression of it being a slow morning), close up on his face (makes us want to find out more about him)
props - bed spread middle - bisexual? enigma: open with his parents? parents don't care? rebelling?), neat unrumpled (didn't sleep, controlling), he stands out against his sheets (dark hair, white pillows)
lighting - one shaft of light across his face (doesn't want to sleep? curtains not drawn, letting the light in), relatively dark.
scene - his room, tidy (controlling, symbolic), clean, white (hard to keep clean, controlling)
sounds - church bells (British culture, church Sunday? slow, asynchronous),birds (asynchronous),alarm (action code), diegetic.
shadows - two on either side of his face (two sides to him?) symbolic.

How is sexuality presented in this clip?

The scene starts off with a extreme close up on the characters face, and in the distance there are two diegetic sounds; church bells ringing and birds twittering. Both of these are asynchronous sounds because you cannot see where the sound is coming from, as the camera is still fixed upon the characters face, but at the same time slowly zooming out to reveal more of his surroundings. As the camera zooms out, you see that the pillows he has been 'sleeping' on look freshly made, and that there is a shaft of light across his face. This poses the question did he actually sleep at all? His pillows don't look like someone has been sleeping on them and the light would surely have been there all night, which means did he want to sleep? Plus the fact that teenagers are not normally awake that early on a Sunday morning would add to the curiosity.

The camera carries on zooming out slowly, giving the scene a slow pace, possibly signifying that the character is tired, or that it will be quite a slow day, which added with the church bells (a British culture code), could symbolise it to be a Sunday morning. During this more and more of the characters room is revealed and you see him lying in his bed. His bed cover is of a naked man and woman lying to the left and right of the cover, which is also unrumpled, supporting the idea that he has not slept. He is lying right in the middle of the bed, right between the two people on his bed cover, possibly symbolising that he is a bisexual, due to the fact that he is not associating himself with either of the two people on his bed spread.

If we take the idea that the character was up all night thinking about his sexuality, then the use of the church bells in the clip take on a different meaning. It could be seen that the bells are reminding him of his sexuality, as being a homosexual is seen as a sin in the church's eyes, and therefore if the character comes from a religious family, this could be a cause of worry for him. In the scene there are two shadows on either side of the characters face, maybe symbolising that there are two different sides to him, which also links in to the idea of the character being a bisexual, as it could represent the part of him that likes women, and the part of him that likes men. Because the character is in the middle of these two shadows, it could present the point that he feels stuck in the middle of the problem, unsure whether he should tell people, but on the other hand worried what they would say if he did.

The scene finishes with an above shot of the character in his bed with some of his room visible. From what is shown the bedroom looks very neat and clean, everything seems to have a certain place and the floor is bare, not covered in items (such as clothes) as people would expect to see in a teenage boys room. It gives the impression that the character takes pride in the things he owns, and likes everything to look presentable, maybe giving him a controlling edge to his personality. However, taking more of a pride in appearances that teenage boys usually would could be linked to the idea of homosexuality. Interest in appearance is something that is stereotypically associated with gay men, and therefore the use of this aspect in the scene also adds to the idea of the character being a bisexual. 

To conclude the clip presents sexuality in two different ways, being loud and brash about it by using the bed cover, which stands out because of it's uniqueness, but also by using subtle hints, such as using the shadows to represent the two sides of the character. However the bed cover could just symbolise that the character is a very confident person, and is not worried about having such a 'different' bed spread, or that he likes to rebel against his parents, who would probably not approve of his choice.