TV drama

Top boy was shown on Chanelle four at 8pm the reason for this is because more of the young children would be in bed by this time where as teenagers and young adults will not also Chanelle four is mostly watched my teenagers and young adults. The reason for top boy is show younger people how some teenagers day to day life is actually like and to show that if you was to end up going in the wrong direction that is how your life will end up top boy consists of drug dealing and has many violent scenes this is show how the younger generation is turning into and how everything they do results in violence or use of drugs.

The codes and conventions;
Top boy is placed in Summerhouse housing estate in Hackney, East London where it's stereo type is usually gang related things and crime and drug dealing which fits into what the tb drama is based on.The typical probs that are used in top boy are guns knifes drugs alcohol and mobile phones. The characters in Top boy are usually  from ethnic backgrounds such as Spanish Albanian black Caribbean ect. so they are portrayed as dangerous and violently aggressive people which is the stereotype of their ethnic people. Also went up boy is set is in blocks of flats where usually all the drug dealing and the violence get carried out in this is a stereotypical repersentation of people that live in blocks of flats and in the rough neighbourhood. Also in some scenes of top boy it is set in the Porsche big houses this is because some stereotypical people that live in the posh houses also get involved in drug dealing and the crime top boys trying to show us that drugs and violence don't always happen in the rough neighbourhoods. The typical costumes that the characters in top boy where are usually don't tracksuits also the higher status status people that I'm at the top of the drug game where all the expensive designer clothes  this shows the audience that the more you do  in drug dealing you won't always get as much as the people at the top which don't do as much also discount so the audience that job dealing and violence is pointless and I will get and it won't get you anywhere.
In top boy most of the drug dealers are mail this is a stereotypical representation of how only male people get involved in drugs and violence also the women that are used in tob boy are used  for sexual things and also as people who go and investigate things for the male drug dealers.