Audience
Uses and gratifications theory
-Explain how we 'use' the media and what pleasures we receive.
Hypodermic Needle Theory
- early theory that suggests we are injected with ideas that we believe to be true.
Narrative:
Todorov - 3 parts to a narrative (equilibrium, disruption, resolution)
Propp - Character types (hero, villain, princess, donor, helper etc)
Levi Straus - binary opposites - narratives feature conflicts between opposing forces (good/ evil)
Barthes - narratives involve enigmas - questions/ puzzles to be solved by the audience.
Tuesday, 27 March 2012
Criminal minds
Based in america about a child that has been kidnapped . They investigate who could have taken the child. They study his daily routines the people the child has talk to eg postman, delivery man etc.
They use alot of Databases and computer based things to find out about the people in the area who they think could of committed the crime. They find a suspect and the child dead dumped in the woods. But it turns our that the parents killed their own son. They just made it look like someone else done it.
They use the set pieces of:
A police office
A interrogation room
Conventions:
Setting - america = glossy and glamorous
Professions- police officers, detectives, forensics, researchers.
Based in america about a child that has been kidnapped . They investigate who could have taken the child. They study his daily routines the people the child has talk to eg postman, delivery man etc.
They use alot of Databases and computer based things to find out about the people in the area who they think could of committed the crime. They find a suspect and the child dead dumped in the woods. But it turns our that the parents killed their own son. They just made it look like someone else done it.
They use the set pieces of:
A police office
A interrogation room
Conventions:
Setting - america = glossy and glamorous
Professions- police officers, detectives, forensics, researchers.
Monday, 19 March 2012
Crime drama review - midsummer murders
Midsummer murders is set in the small village of Midsummer, which is nothing like it seems. Behind all the picturesque cottages and well trimmed hedges, there are dark secrets, scandals and downright evil. In midsummer murders they solve the crimes by talking to witnesses and all the people in the villages who knew te victim, they interrogate the suspects, they occasionally use forensics and they think about who would have any motives to do the murders.
The main character DI Barnaby is very much the good guy sort of cop, he is very relaxed and subtle. He thinks things through thoroughly and lets his partner do all the dirty work like the chases and violence.
The main character DI Barnaby is very much the good guy sort of cop, he is very relaxed and subtle. He thinks things through thoroughly and lets his partner do all the dirty work like the chases and violence.
Tuesday, 13 March 2012
Setting
How is the setting significant to crime dramas that you have seen? (e.g. Miami, London, Whitechapel.)
CSI Miami is set in Miami which is supposed to be glamouras and luxury. where Luther being set in the the estates in London, which is seen as gritty and dirty.
What does the setting connotate?
Miami connates glamour, wealth and stlye. but the the estates in london like, ladbrook grove, connotates violence, poverty, crime, anger and dissatisfaction.
What do we associate with the settings?
we associate beaches, holidays, spring break, paradise with miami. whereas we associate cancil estates with chavs, crime, gangs, and working class people.
What opportunities arise from using the setting?
The oppitunities that arise from the gritty setting in luther are gang violence, burglary and drungs. the oppitunities that arise from using the glamouras setting in CSI Miami are drug smuggling, murder, fraud.
How is the setting significant to crime dramas that you have seen? (e.g. Miami, London, Whitechapel.)
CSI Miami is set in Miami which is supposed to be glamouras and luxury. where Luther being set in the the estates in London, which is seen as gritty and dirty.
What does the setting connotate?
Miami connates glamour, wealth and stlye. but the the estates in london like, ladbrook grove, connotates violence, poverty, crime, anger and dissatisfaction.
What do we associate with the settings?
we associate beaches, holidays, spring break, paradise with miami. whereas we associate cancil estates with chavs, crime, gangs, and working class people.
What opportunities arise from using the setting?
The oppitunities that arise from the gritty setting in luther are gang violence, burglary and drungs. the oppitunities that arise from using the glamouras setting in CSI Miami are drug smuggling, murder, fraud.
Settings
How is the setting significant to crime dramas that you have seen?
The setting is a key convention to any crime drama. we associate
The setting is a key convention to any crime drama. we associate
Monday, 12 March 2012
Crime drama review - Scott and Bailey
Scott and bailey is a crime where the main characters are best friends janet scott and rachel bailey.the unique aspect of this crime drama is that the main characters are both women which is not usual for a typical crime drama.the show is based to the two women who are on the major incident team headed by another key character DCI Jill Murray. The show revolves around the personal and professional lives of the main characters.
This episode focuses on the killing and burning of two men. And the breakdown in Janet's marriage and the exposing of Rachel's family secrets.
But they manage to keep a line between work and marriage.
This crime drama uses the typical conventions :
Professions
Setting - manchester
style- the style is just very normal but has gritty parts to it.
Set pieces - investigation meeting, press conference
Tone - quite informal as they uses swearing but can be formal aswell.
This episode focuses on the killing and burning of two men. And the breakdown in Janet's marriage and the exposing of Rachel's family secrets.
But they manage to keep a line between work and marriage.
This crime drama uses the typical conventions :
Professions
Setting - manchester
style- the style is just very normal but has gritty parts to it.
Set pieces - investigation meeting, press conference
Tone - quite informal as they uses swearing but can be formal aswell.
Monday, 5 March 2012
Whitechaple
White chapel is about the reoccurrence of past time killings that are now taking place today in the town of white chapel.this episode they are looking at the murders of teenagers, they think that the suspect is 'mad mantis'.
He goes out to kill the people that were in his class at school.
White chapel uses very different story lines. Which no other crime dramas use. I think that is why it is so popular. Unlike most british crime dramas you actually see some of the murders take place before the main characters no about them.
This program uses many of the typical conventions:
Flashbacks
Montages
Professions
Setting -london
Style - Gritty and quite grewsome
He goes out to kill the people that were in his class at school.
White chapel uses very different story lines. Which no other crime dramas use. I think that is why it is so popular. Unlike most british crime dramas you actually see some of the murders take place before the main characters no about them.
This program uses many of the typical conventions:
Flashbacks
Montages
Professions
Setting -london
Style - Gritty and quite grewsome
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