Aims and intentions second draft

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. On the topic of characters, I am going to represent different classes and how the nurturing of people from different classes influences their behaviour in later life. The main example of my constructed representation of the classes in the UK are within the character Thomas Skinner. Skinner is from an upper class background and this is shown clearly through his greed, charisma and sense of entitlement. Another issue discussed in my production is that of corruption in the force that protects us every day, and how the system is exploited by many. Every character in the production is involved in their own form of corruption, and deals with it in different ways. To help target and make my product seem familiar to my mature audience, I will include props and themes that are much more suited to an 18+ audience such as guns and knives along with the use of fake blood to portray violence. As well as this some offensive language will be used in the scene to make it more adult and realistic to the story. This will of course mean that my production would have to be shown at least past 21:00pm on ITV due to the mature content on it. However, due to the fact I have selected my program to be shown on ITV, I will have to keep the gore and violence in moderation as other successful ITV shows such as ‘Happy Valley’ and ‘Broadchurch’ had a fair degree of violence, but not to the point in which it may have been conceived as uncomfortable by consumers. I would however like to have a certain amount of differentiation to my production. As the media theorist Steve Neale states, a good media production will contain enough repetitions of codes and conventions for it to seem familiar and enjoyable to the reader. However, it also requires a good amount of differentiation for it to seem new and exciting to the viewer. My intricate and complex plot mainly based on the corruption each of the characters is involved in differentiates my production from previous crime dramas that have been shown on ITV. To converge my television production with my magazine I will be implementing a very similar, limited colour scheme. As well as this I will be focusing a large amount of the article to the stars of the show. As ITV is a very prestigious institution, famous actors regularly appear on their channels, it is also highly generic for characters to be looked at in more depth in crime drama articles as I have found in my research