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.

Crime Drama Magazine Front cover.

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.