Tuesday 7th January 2025
Do now:
1. 2 exams
2. 1 hour and 30 mins
3. Genre is a type of a media form that involves a certain set of characteristics
4. Older middle class people, white British women
5. Educate, inform, entertain
Component 2 - understanding media forms and products
Written exam: 1 hour 30 minutes
60 marks
Crime Drama:
Genre - A type of media form that involves a certain set of characteristics
Sub genre -A category that is a subdivision of a larger genre
Hybrid genre - A combination of two or more genres that share conventions from different categories
Responder:
Narrative - police man who seems depressed
Setting - Office, Liverpool
Characters - White man, police officer, wife and child
Mis en scene - Dim lighting, police uniform, sirens, medication
Happy Valley:
Narrative - Man at park who has fire and a lighter with too much to drink
Setting - shop, park
Characters - 2 police officers, drunk man
Mis en scene - police car and uniform, alcohol
Line of duty
Narrative - Officers shoot innocent man who's holding a baby. Wrong person.
Setting - run down apartments
Characters - multiple police officers
Mis en scene - police cars, sirens, radios, guns, uniform
Similarities - Police officers, run down places, sirens, lowkey lighting, ariel views, starting with a problem every time.
The typical codes and conventions of TV drama are urban areas, police officers, crime, guns, mostly men but some women, tends to start with a crime that is being committed but not usually the main crime, normally a victim, protagonist tends to be a detective or police man, antagonist is often intelligent and craft always being 1 step ahead, handful of suspects with reasonable opportunity of them being linked to the crime, there are many clues and red herrings to keep he audience thinking, narrative ark that unfold over many episodes, often in city or urban area, you get usually a villain hero and helper,
representations of characters and themes are difficult which makes it difficult to guess, lowkey lighting, gritty, realistic, handheld camerawork, fast paced and diegetic sounds.
The impact of these conventions keeps the audience intrigued and guessing as the representations aren't clear and they cause lots of tensions through mis en scene. The villain isn't clear as there is many suspects which keep the audience intrigued a they will guess who it is.
