Enigmas in crime drama

why such a symbolic start scene
who?
whats in the bag
wheres he going
why he doping it

where is it?
why are they gaged any tied
who are they
whats gonna happen
who is he
where are they going
why are they linked?
why didnt he awnser
who are they?
why is he being followed
who is she?
why is he telling him what to do?
who are they?
why is she so defencive of her name?

Theory

Theory covers 2 diffrent sides of media, the audience and the narrative.

Audience

• Uses and gratifications theory

is a theory that states that media is used due to the reasons like infomation we use media for the infomation it gives to us, personal identity where you look for almost role models in the media, social interaction a means for a viewer/user to socialise with other people and entertainment a means to escape the tedium of the world and to relax.

• Hypodermic needle theory

the theory that we are injected ideas that we belive eg fashion we are injected what is fashion , whats cool and what not.

Venn diagram for csi luther and sherlock

My crime drama

Pitching Ideas for A New Crime Drama

Name:  The following

Type of Crime Drama: investigative                                                                                                                                 

Characters: solo name is Harold Manson only ever referred to as Manson private detective he is 5ft 7in very withdrawn from the world but sees everything with an open mind  

Receptionist Claire stereotypical blonde but with a twist as she is not dumb she has a degree in physiology 

Structure of Show

Series every episode is self contained the crime cages every episode

Typical Narrative

Restrictive narrative you see the crime through the detectives eyes

Setting

Urban setting in central London

Style

Gritty, Glamorous, Faced / Slow Paced, humorous, sombre, intelligent, slick editing, etc

Scheduling

Itv 21:00-22:00

Target Audience

Lower middle class upper middle class adults 20-50

Similar Shows:

Sherlock 

USP:  What makes your drama different?

The depth analyse of the little things that make up the bigger picture eg scratched round the key hole on front door implies works hard at work has late nights or early morning or is a drunk. Has no police influence purely a commercial detective.

Poirot

about a male detective set back/recorded quit long ago french man walks with a stick/caine he speaks almost as the narrator as he speaks in 3rd person "no, no ,no piorot will not" relaxed layed back crime drama no crimes with any gore mostly thefts set in countryside there is no real uniform for the police just dressed smartly in suits.

target audience is elderly people you can tell by the classical music the layed back rural setting and the older male protagonist.

Midsummer murders

Its a layed back crime drama set in countrty side this gives the show a more relaxed setting, hence the title its about murders. protagonist is a white male called dci john barnaby. was addaped from the book by antony horowitz. Mostly about using the mind, and deduction of alabys. Contains a few flashbacks. The intro / teaser showed the crime then throughout the show they solved it the end with the criminal caught, this episode was about a school run in which one runner was stabbed and stumbled to finish line and died.

ingredients:
 police
crime (murder)
questioning

Narrative

The opening scene / teaser is very inportant it will decide if a possible viewer will watch or change channel. The teaser will most likely show the crime happening but with out the villians this draws the viewer into watchng the find out how. CIS Miami had a teaser where the girl was shown tied to a post and rocks being thrown it was restrictive as we only saw her in 3rd person and the rocks where thrown off camera. Sherlock showed multiple victims saying there last words crying.

Enigmas make a crime drama memerable and addictive to watch once u get caught in the enigma you have to solve it. Enigma's include in sherlock when he plays the murders game to see how he killed his victims, also in luther alice wants to know why luther is so hooked to his job. Sherlock last episode of season 2 sherlock jumps off a bulding yet you see him later on watching dr john watson at his grave.

The quest of a protagnist is in a cyclycal structure he/she has a problem trys to find out the resoulution it gets resoulved then something new becomes his/her problem, its usaly presented in a restrictive narrative where we the viewer only know as much as the protagonist.

set pieces

Laboratory  scene


Interrogation scene
Empty room

Eureka moment

Initial crime investigation
        police tape

Arrest/confession

Crime flash back

Chase/dash

Notification of kin

Autopsy

Press conference

Laboratory scene

 The protagonist usually looks through a microscope or dusts an item for prints. It gives the viewer the impression that the user of the equipment is well educated it helps to develop the character also it could find evidence that could add extra suspects or could remove them. The most iconic items for a laboratory would be a microscope, test tube mixer. Language used would include fingerprints, DNA, fibre, hair.

Interrogation scene
The detective has a suspect in empty room some heroins will use a form or torture or threats, mabye the sterotypical good cop bad cop


Eureka moment

Initial crime investigation
        police tape

Arrest/confession

Crime flash back

Chase/dash

Notification of kin

Autopsy

Press conference

White chapel

I watched episode 3 in which the "bogeyman" comes out to play killing multiple people the police suspect it is a crazy villain that escaped a maximum security prison. it is mostly glamorous (not much gore) but there is a morgue scene. The programme is split with two characters one is the crime historian he is very factual only non fiction where as the protagonist are more open minded top what the victims describe the killer as.

Typical ingredients:
uniform police
morgue scene
murder

settings

The place where  a crime drama is set is very important. in shows like whitechapel it is delibratly set there for a reason (whitechapel was known for having jack the ripper a serial killer that has never been caught after killing upto 23 people). With in a setting there are subsettings like london is split by Luther that has the hard rough working class side of london and sherlock that has the posh upper class. The crimes set within luthers areas are more likely to be physical and more gory where as Sherlock crimes would be clever and glamourous this reflects on the audience for shows. 
           By using these settings these setting they become relevant to diffrent classes eg luther would be a working class man's show whereas sherlock would more likely be for upper class well educated viewers.

White chapel

episode1:
They are after a murders that turns out to be a serial killer, they mostly use forensics at the start then move onto facts (past cases) they use knowledge to track a fox that was carrying a human hand. The protagonist is a white male, its set in London. Its gritty ( you see alot of the mutilated lims eg feet hands torso ) it has a restrictive narrative and uses flashbacks.
typicality ingredients:
uniformed police
white board with evidence pictures
The interrogation
autopsy scenes

Set piece

Laboratory scene

 The protagonist usually looks through a microscope or dusts an item for prints. It gives the viewer the impression that the user of the equipment is well educated it helps to develop the character also it could find evidence that could add extra suspects or could remove them. The most iconic items for a laboratory would be a microscope, test tube mixer. Language used would include fingerprints, DNA, fibre, hair techniqual words.

Interrogation scene
The detective has a suspect in empty room some heroins will use a form or torture or threats, mabye the sterotypical good cop bad cop. Usaly the suspect is sitting there the detective walks in and starts a tape recorder. Finds infromation and devolpes the detective and the suspect. Iconography would be the empty room with a 1 way mirror the tape recorder next to the wall on the table and 2 chairs. language used would be very limited and the question if a bad cop could be made to manipulate the suspect into saying something bad evidence, "your hair" "your dna".

 Eureka moment
Usally has a pan view of the detective panning around his head usaly has the detective finding some evidence that alows him/her to figure out how the crime was comited and who. Alows the plot to move onto the next scene usaly going after the villian. Hand infront of mouth thinking, and after the eureka moment the detective speeds up almost runs. language " wait i've got it! " " it was " "alibi".

Initial crime investigation
The detective arives shows badge to a officer then lifts tape and walks into the crime scene looks around for evidence gets an update from a police offiecer. Adds evience to the case that could give possible leads to add to the plot ot moves into the laborotory scene.  Lots police flashing blue lights police crime scene tape the evidence cards.

Arrest/confession

Crime flash back

Chase/dash

Notification of kin

Autopsy

Press conference

I watched miss marple it’s a layed back crime drama that has the main protagonist being a little old lady called miss marple she is reoccurring hotever the crimes change. Its set in the country side , its main target audience is elderly people that can relate to the main chacrter being a minority (elderly women). the crime drama is given the name from the main protagonist this is called.......

Typical crime drama indredients seen :

Flashbacks

Police at the end raking them into custody

Murder

interviews with suspects

multiple suspect

restrictive narrative 

Silent witness

Silent witness is a crime drama set in london it is mostly about the science of the crime eg csi, they use autopsy  and they analyse the bullets that were fired i watched an episode where a lady was shot in a drive by but the bullet that killed here wasnt shot from the drive by's gunner they used there science to look at the bullets scratched and the flat side to see that it ricochet from the floor and killed her .
Typical scenes/ charcters

LOTS of crime scene police tape
lots of people Dressed in the white paper overalls
lots of police
guns
murder
flashback of the murder
semi restrictive narrative where we sorta know who did it but you didn't see them kill the person

Sherlock watched

Saw Sherlock season 2 episode 3 great episode
 main character :

Sherlock Holmes a quirky detective
John Watson Sherlocks side kick
James Moriarty the villain


Moriarty was releases by Sherlocks brother from prison as they couldn't get them to tell them a code that could hack anything. Sherlock was setup by moriarty to look like a fraud, Moriarty catches Sherlock out when they meet on the roof of a hospital he tells him that he has hired a gang of murders that have been told to kill all of his loved people and the people he is associated with.and if he doesn't jump of the building. Sherlock starts to do what he does best tries to get in Moriarty head to get the phone numbers for the murders to call them off. Moriarty shoots himself in the head. Sherlock makes John belive Moriarty then jumps. as John runs to Sherlocks body he is knocked over by a cyclist. Sherlock is in a pool of blood and is taken away on a hospital bed. Last scene John is talking to Sherlocks grave then it shows John from another angle then zooms out to show Sherlock watching John.

how i think he survived:
as Sherlock jumped there was a rubbish van in front of him i think he landed in that then jumped to the floor. in the previous episode they dealt with a drug that caused hallucination i think the cyclist drugged John as he was knocked over.

stereotypes of crime drama that were seen:

professionals the police that came after Sherlock
guns
stereotypical gangster (skin head with lots of tattoos sleeveless top )
the hero and villain (Sherlock is represented as a anti hero and a hero)

Character types

Crime dramas have may diffrent charcters types like Heros, heroines, Anti-heros , quirky detectives, bad-temperd detectives, rookies, buddy partners, grumpy superior officers, forensic scientists and pshychology experts. These roles realy on a symbiotic relationship where without the villian there is no crime with no crime there is no vitim without a victim there is no cop.

Heros

Theses characters only objective is to solve the crime and to restore peace, they usally stay on the right side of the law. This is Jack Bauer from 24 he sometimes sways to the wrong side of the law to get intel that could potentually save lifes. He is a realist he says the quote "I see fifteen people held hostage on a bus, and everything else goes out the window. I will do whatever it takes to save them, and I mean whatever it takes. ... Laws were written by much smarter men than me. And in the end, these laws have to be more important than the 15 people on the bus. I know that's right. In my mind, I know that's right. I just don't think my heart could ever have lived with it." this is how he sees torture as okay.

Heroins

Anti-heros

Dexter works for the forensic sciensts where he helps catch murders through the uses of his murderers mind. Even though he means good he still is a criminal, in his spear time he partisipates in the lovely passtime of murdering other murders. He abuses his power in the police by acsessing the murders that got away from the justice system.