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Aims and intentions first draft (unfinished)


After intensely researching the crime drama genre including its codes and conventions and its generic editing schemes, I feel a lot more competent in creating a crime drama of my own. Very generic conventions that I have implemented into my production include corruption, a senior cop with personal troubles and a Rookie cop. As well as this I have used a lot of narrative theory to help shape my characters in the production. The main being Propp’s character functions theory. Each of the characters in my production serve one or more of the named functions, for example Thomas Skinner takes on the role of the ‘False hero’ as well as the ‘helper’. I have also deeply analysed camera work through textual analysis of similar productions to mine such as David Fincher’s ‘Seven’ (1995) and the popular BBC crime drama ‘Happy Valley’.  In Seven, during the scenes with the two detectives and the criminal Jon Doh, lots of close ups of faces are used to create and aesthetic and gripping tension to keep the viewer interested and thrilled. I will incorporate this technique to my production along with more focus to the lighting on the characters as the location I am shooting on will be darker, and a lot can be said about how the characters are lit in the scene.

 

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