Magazine front cover

After researching many different front covers of magazines which feature an article on a crime drama, I have come to realise that the more conventional front image for a magazine consists of a two shot of two of the characters faces. It is used to portray the rivalry between the main characters in the program.

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Crime drama arcticle GQ

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).

Seven - Textual analysis

I watched an 8 minute clip from the film multiple times and analysed different aspects of the construction of the scenes such as the mise-en-scene, the lighting, the camera, and most importantly for this particular film, the characters. This is because the characters in this scene are very similar to the characters I would like to construct in my coursework At this point in the movie, in the beginning of act three, after the previous story twists, our expectations of what is to come are already well set up. But here John Doe is very confident and repeatedly emphasizes the impact of his coming act. This raises even more the audience expectation and triggers an almost unbearable curiosity for the climax. Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MUIpgiPBk5k

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 ...

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