Theory

Narrative

Propp

• Every story is based around one character
• Hero, Villian,  Helper, Princesses, False hero, Donor, Father/ gives rewards, Dispatcher sends them on there journey.

Todorov
Narratives conclude that all stories follow the same pattern.
Equilbrium- Normatlity- things seem to be normal.
Disruption- A event changes everything.
Resolution- The film trys to sort out the problem.

Levi Strams
Everything involves opposites

• Old vs Young
• Good vs Evil
• Law vs Criminals

Barthes
All narravtives have enigmas.

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Exam Tips

• Take into the ecam coloured pencilsm fine liners and a ruler.
• Make sketches and diagrams to develop our answers.
• They will maybe give use things that they want in the crime drama or they will let us choose what we can inlude.

One of the four tasks:
Storyboard
Designing Dvd cover
Magazine/ Front Cover
Design a website Home page

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• First question is always on the codes and conventions.
• Agree or disagree with them, compare characters
• If they dont ask why they think it is successful they want you to add it anyway.
• They will expect you to talk about 3 shows (depth rather than breath)
• Make sure you add ven Diagram
• Reference to shows

Auidence:
A-A*- 2 examples of theroy

Example 1:Uses and Gratifications theory:

• Why we use the media/ pleasures that come from the gratification
• Information
• Entertainment- Enigma/ auidence/ own satisfication
• Indentify- Something for everyone
• Relationship

PROLIFERATION- INCREASED AMOUNT OF.

Example 2: Hyperdermic needle theory: Glues information to you, forces the information into your brain. Makes you beleive things that aren't ture/ False truth.

ATTENTION:

• Know character types well ( are they a hero or anti hero) How they work, good or bad, whatmotivates them. things that hold them back.
• Settings
• Set pieces, know those scenes that always in crime dramas.
• Know your jargens-blunt force drama- MO mode in which you operate.
• Write in roll.
• Be passionate
• Make it believable> BBc Iplayer> BBC3>BBc if it is successful.
• Expect rational/ Reasoning.
• Ways of advertising your show-Apps-facebook/ social media.

Kidnap and Randsom Enigmas

Where is this?
Who is this man?
Where is he going?
Why is he putting the sack in the lake?
What city is this?
Why are the people tied up?
Who has been kidnapped?
Who is he calling?
Why is he calling them?
Why did he not answer his phone?
Who is that girl? why is she there?
Why is that boy following the man?
Why have they got on the bus?

Luther as a Flawed anti hero

Luther is not your conventional detective, we think of detectives as law abiding citizens whereas Luther isn't.

Luther is an anti-hero as he watched a man dying right infront of him even though he had an opportunity to save his life, however he left him to die.

Also Luther retaliated and had an incident with his ex's wife boyfriend. This demonstrates that he has a short fuse.

Furthermore another reason for him being an anti-hero is how he met up with the murderer several of times outside of his working hours.

Luther went against the rules and regulations as he went to the murderers estate without armed forces to back him up. He fought alone.

Similarly Luther nearly got tempted by the seductive behaviour of a potential murderer.

Luther breaks into Alice's flat who is the murderer without anyone knowing.

He has a very unusual relationship with Alice when he shouldn't. A cop shouldn't be found being friendly with the murderer.

Luther also blackmailed others which isn't the correct way when dealing with a crime.

Luther also puts his personal life before his profession, which shouldn't be seen when dealing with crimes.

Independent case study- Week 6

Csi New York
At the beginning of the show, it begins with the crime scene you see who done the crime and how they done it. It was a shooting. There was forensics already at the scene. It cuts to a lab scene where they look at where the man was shot, they also work out that it wasn't the first attempt the criminal  had to tied shoot someone. The police find out where the victim lives and do a search of the house, a couple pull up into the drive. They find out that they have a whole in the floor, the window has been smashed. This shows they got away, they get a forensic team to find any evidence straight away. They find something in the bin.
It contains the main key points in a crime drama:
Flashbacks
Forensic team
Lab
Evidence
Conference

Case Study- Week 5.

Kidnap and Ransom Part 3 out of 3.


Expert British hostage negotiator Dominic King is called when a businesswoman from the UK is kidnapped in South Africa by a man named Willard. When the release of the woman goes wrong and Willard strikes again in Britain, King realizes this was never a straightforward case of kidnapping for ransom, and that the man's motives run much deeper than ever imagined. King, along with his superior, Angela, and assistant, Carrie , must now work against the clock to bring Willard's latest victims home alive, its a race against time.


In the beginning of the show it is shown in a laboratory where they are examining the death of Carrie who was trying to release of the woman but it went terribly wrong. From this the police can tell that she struggled for life against her trying to get away. This shows that this particular scene is almost always in a crime drama as it shows on how they work out the investigations and what it proves.  


Robert has made a deal too get his daughter back however dominic doesn't know the deal. Butt Dominic knows more than Robert he knows that other people are involved. You see a seen where the other hostage is involved but you can't see where they are all you can see is a car, this makes you more interested in the programme as you want to find out what happens to him. 


At the end of the part 3 they made the deal they got fleur back and Anwa got the 1.8 million dollars, but Leila got shot. Dominic goes back to find Leila boyfriend but he find him dead, he hung himsllef, this is a typical ending to a crime drama the main murder is found dead so you never get to find out why they really done it

Narrative

Give examples of opening teasers?
In shows like Luther the most obvious kind of opening teasers this show gives of is, Luther is always there, its either with a victim or him on his own, it always looks like somethings going to happen for example, In the last episode the shows started with Luther standing on the edge, it started making you think is this going to be the end of things, its makes you want to watch the show more as you want to see what happens.
What examples of enigmas have you seen?
Example of enigmas:
Why did Luther yawn?
Will Horatio kill Memo?
Why does he have 3 phones?
Whats he kicked in the lake?
How would you describe that 'Quests' of the key protagonsits of crime drama.
The quests of the key protagonists are to ask the question of why are they doing this?
Luther does it to prove himself and Horatio does it to clean up the streets. Each main character does it for there own benfit, to make them look good.
How have shows you've seen either opened or closed narratives
Shows that i have seen that have started with a  a closed ending are CSI, Luther, whitechapel. These are shows that you see you done the murder at the begining of the show.

Setting

How is the setting significant to crime dramas that you have seen? Eg Miami, London and whitechapel.
What dies the setting connotate- what do we assocaite with the settings
What opportunities arise from using the setting.
The setting is significant to crime dramas as they can give you a overall understanding of where it is set and how that effects viewers. It is significant to how the crimes will be solved and who will solve them, For example:
Luther:
In luther it is set in the lower class of london, estates places like that. This reminds of the riots in 2011. Its going to be more rough and gritty, not like the higher class of  london. Kind of shows that the cops that are solving arent exactly going to be on the right side of the law, it will show through there surroundings behind them aswell. With this setting we associate more gangs, young peoples and homeless people getting killed.
Sherlcok:
Also sherlcok is set in London but its set more in the upper class areas like Baker street, the more richer side, also this shows in characters to how they dress, how they groom there self, take care of there apperience. With this setting we associate more band robberies and higher money crimes.

Case Study- Week 4.

Kidnap and Ranson- Part 1 out of 3

Kidnappers in Kashmir take the passengers on a tourist bus hostage. Dominic King must negotiate for their release while convincing the police not to attack.Meanwhile the police believe that the hostages are some sort of part of the kidnapping however they have nothing to do with it. Therefore the police are threatening to kill every single passenger aboard the bus.The passengers make a line and block the window's surrendering to the police. One couple start writing on the window please don't kill us as that's their only way of communication with anyone on the outside world.All phones have been taken off of each couple and individual to stop communication. They also threaten the individuals who do not hand over their passports.One male passenger acts out to have a fit however it's just his plan of escaping. He then kicks the front window that smashes straight away takes a large jump hoping to get to safety, however the India police believe that he was apart of the kidnapping. However he wasn't. He died straight away from a bullet in the neck. Finally the kidnapper releases one hostage and one hostage only. He demands for more bullets and weapons to therefore release another 5, however this is not the case for ransom he demands he wants 10 to be released in return for the kidnapper to either live or die.

Set Pieces

The main Set Pieces of a Crime Drama are:
The Labouarty anylase.
Interigation scenes- you can see in but they cant see out/ glass of water/ tape recorder.
The eureka moment.
Crime Scene Investigation- Where they arrive at the scene
The arrest/ confession of the mruder.
Crime Flashback
The dash- The moment where time is running out.
Press Conference- where they appeal to possiable people. 'If you have any information'

Interigation Scene
1. What are typically happen in the scene?
In the scene of a Interigation scence you will always see a table with 4 seats a cup of water and a tape recorder. Within in this scene they will have a glass mirror where the other police officers can see them but they can't see you.

2. What part does  it play in the narrative?
In this scene the part its plays in the narrative is that it brings out that are nervous like they are hiding something, this is the scene where they normally find out something that comes up as a suspicion.

3. What icongraphy is use?
In this scene the usual things you see in the intergations scene is a plain white room with a cup or mug of water,a tape recorder and cameera watching every move the suspect takes. Also there us a wall where people can see in but the suspect can't see out.

4.What auidence pleasures arise from the Scene?
The audience pleaures from the scene is that the audience want to find out them self who actually is the murder or the suspect, it mkaes you more interested as you want to call them up yourself if you notice anything, like them lying or something like that.

5.What language may be used- vocab?
'Did you do it?'
they say question after question to try and get things out of them. They also stand round the table trying to interigate them.

Flashbacks
1. What typically happens in this scene?
In the scene of a flash back  the typically thing that will happen is that the suspect will say there peice and then it will show a flash back of them doing it, its like the re-live the time.

2. What part does it play in the narrative?
The part that this scene plays on the narrative is that this is the scene where they can see what happens, it shows alot of evidence.

3. What icongraphy is used?
The icongraphy that is used in this scene is that you see all the 'murder weapons' and how they are used to kill the victim, it shows alot.

4. What audience pleasres arise from the scene?
The auidnece pleasures that arise from the scene is that the auidence want to know what happens, its like they can work out who the murder is from them, its a very tense scene.

5. What language may be used?
In the Flashbacks there is normally no vocab as thi spart of the scene is normally silent makes things more intense and you actually have to watch it to find out what happens.

Crime Scene Investigation

1.What typically happens in this scene?
In the scene of a investigation you will always see someone taking photos of all the evidnece, police tape say 'Crme Scene Do not enter', someone taking the DNA off the deads clothes or under there finger nails.

2.What part does it play in the narrative?
The part the scene plays in the investigation is that this is were the team gets all the evidence from and this house they work out who the murder is.

3.What icongraphy is used?
In this scene the usual things that you would see is that it is normally outside or in someones home, people in white suits so they dont spread DNA anyway. There is always the the victim at this scene.

4.What audience pleasres arise from the scene?
The auidence pleasures people get from this scene is that people may like to play the roll of a detective out self, people may even get a pleasure out of seeing blood and gore from where the murder actually happened.

5.What language may be used?
The language that may be used in this scene is maybe commenting on things that may be a warning or something suspicious.

Case Study- Week 3.

Homeland- Episode 2.
Homeland is a on going crime drama, it carries on from each episode each week. Crime Dramas do this as it will engage the viewer more as they will want to carry on watching the programme until the end of the series so that they can find out what happens in the end of the programme.
At the begging of the programme they go back in time to a time when the main character goes back to when he was held capture, it was a dream. while he was having the  dream he grabbed onto his wife and bruised his wives arm. throughout the episode he keeps having flash backs from when he was at war. Throughout the programme the detectives have put hidden cameras in his house to watch the every move he does as the undercover police think that he was a american terrorist.  The main character uses violence towards everything, he cant help it. Towards the end of the programme it ended with a cliff hanger to make you want to watch the next series even more, this is way to get more viewers.

Sherlock,CSI&Luther Venn diagram

White Chapel/Case one - Week 2

White Chapel series three is a crime drama that has been split into 3 different parts one showing each week. This makes the audience want to watch the series more as they get in to and want to work out what happens in the end.


This case is carried on from the last week. In the previous week they had formally found body parts wrapped up in bin bags which had been found by foxes. they believe that (max) had  cut up the bodies and  wrapped them up. The killer likes to stick to the same kind of girl with the same hair colour and cut off all body parts the same, so they are like barbies. All the bodies have been poisoned by the aphrodisiac Spanish fly. Nora from the team has gone missing with a bald guy with a blue shirt, the camera then films them walking down the street, it looks as if that Nora has been drugged up or poisoned. they have a forensic team searching the house for clues to find out what happened to Nora. They find unusual blue pills. After that they find another body floating down the river they realise that the body has less and less poison in, the killer has worked out the less poison you use it will still kill you but it will cause a more slow painful death. Theyy also work  out that every girl is perfect like the first girl he lost, he doesn't try to kill them he try to make them fall in love with him. Nathan (murder) now gives every girl that he falls in love with a, a love potion but without realising that it kills them. He blacks out then he commits the murder without remembering. He has two personalities one called Nathan one called max. The heads of the vicitims ment to much to max/nathan so he buried them in a flower pot.


White Chapel uses forensics teams to work out the investigations but you also get to know the main characters while the investigation is being taken part. You get to know the team as it is series programme which makes you get to know the characters more.

Csi New York- Week one.

An elite team of police forensic evidence investigation experts solve murders and serious crimes in New York.

In Csi New York they work as a team. They use forensic equitement and use all the scientific ways of working out who the murder is.
After a band had performed at a gig, the lead singers boyfriend was murdered. At the murder scene the body was covered in fake dollars. The suspect had struggled with the attacker before he was shot in the back, He died instantly. The female singer was asleep in bed when she instantly heard the gun shot, she ran down the hall to find him dead on the living room floor. When the forensics where checking the body for any DNA samples the found skin cells of a reptile. They also found rips and tears in the lead singers t-shirt from broken glass, she broke into her boyfriends apartment, she has been in many crimes before after her brother died in a car crash. They have to multiple suspects (Josh and Michael). Josh and Michael had a argument. In the end Josh killed the lead singers boyfriend.

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