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.