Do Now
Tuesday 7 January 2024
1. how many media exams are there? 2
2. how long is each exam? 1hr 30minutes
3. what does genre mean? type of media form that involved a particular set of tropes
4. what is the target audience for the archers? older middle-class white British women
5. whats the BBC remit? to inform, educate, and entertain
TV Drama
Crime Drama
- Genre - type of media form that involved a particular set of tropes.
- Sub-Genre - a category that is a subdivision of a larger genre.
- Hybrid genre - a literary or film genre that blends themes and elements from two or more different genres.
The Responder
Narrative:
Setting: a bit populated city with a lot of crime
Characters: the main character is a police man and also has health problems he also has a wife and daughter
Mise en scene and iconography:
Happy Valley
Narrative:
Setting: takes place in a town
Characters: main character is a 47 year old police women who lives with her sister
Mise en scene and iconography:
Line of duty
Narrative:
Setting: a city
Characters:
Mise en scene and iconography:
similarities:
- all of them took place in pretty populated areas
- all of the main characters work in the police force
- very dim and dark lighting/shots
- starts with them trying to stop a crime
- lots of air shots of police moving around
- shown from the polices side
typical codes and conventions of TV crime genre:
- dim lighting
- involves the police
- takes place in populated areas
- police are the good guys
- begins with trying to stop a crime
- main character tends to be intelligent and determined to solve the crime but they also have a flaw
- the villain is also intelligent and crafty, and seems to be one step ahead of the main character
- there are a handful of suspects with motives and reasonable opportunity to have done the crime
- there are clues and red herrings that help or hinder the investigation
- continuing narrative across multiple episodes
the impact of these conventions help build tension and suspense
Do Now
Friday 10th January 2025
1. a literary or film genre that blends themes and elements from two or more different genres.
2. Luther, The Sweeney
3. dim shots
4. starts off trying to stop a crime
5. suspense, tension, enigmas
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