A reality check ... again

In yesterdays entry I briefly covered the trend of documentary styling in commercial visuals, especially those featuring/targeting teens & young adults. I've just remembered some recent trailers for a new Brit TV show, 'Skins', that happen to feature/target teens & young adults. Click here to see one of them.

Quite a revision on the 90's teen hit 'The Fresh Price of Bel-Air' isn't it... Click here.

I appreciate that some of us Europeans have for a long time leaned toward a greater level of realism in our visual media than Americans, but this is something I also see shifting. Our YouTube generation may be an unsuspecting movement for a form of global visual unification.