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.
https://www.gq-magazine.co.uk/article/the-interceptor-bbc-the-interceptor-cast This article is a story on a crime drama, the interceptor. The article appeared on GQ magazine. I can take much of the content of this article to help draft my own main article for my magazine double spread feature of my production. I analysed the article thoroughly taking notes on all the different media language elements that the writer used to make the article interesting and for it to seem recognisable to repeat readers (by basing the article around an actor interview).
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