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Cuffs: Establishing Genre

Music for crime drama - quick beat non-diegetic music  sirens  cars Audience appeal - Attractive main characters - to attract bored people  Clothing -  Police uniform Theory review: Blumler and Katz - theorists from the 91970s researched how audiences consume a media product with the aim of getting a particular pleasure from the product, They identify 4 pleasures: Entertainment; Surveillance; Self-identity; Social identity. What do the opening scene and credits suggest/tell us about the genre, narrative and characters? Consider: Media language: sound editing, graphics, mise-en-scene, theme music, locations Representations of characters and place Tone of the show The opening scene has grunge-like music, targeting the younger audience. The use of the bright colours like yellow show that it's going to be upbeat, same with the music. The genre is breaking stereotypes as it's showing a lot of graffiti but it also doesn't as it's showing that...

Crime Drama Conventions

Conventions of crime drama: What are the audience expectations of a TV Crime Drama? Uses of gratification theory - Information and education - The viewer want information, knowledge and understanding by watching the show. Entertainment - Watch TV Crime Dramas for enjoyment  Personal Identity - Viewers can recognise a person or product, role models that reflect similar values to themselves and mimic or copy some of their characteristics.  Integration and social interaction - The ability for the media products to produce a topic of conversation between people. What narrative ideas do they expect to find? A crime would happen and the police would have to chase after the person, then arrest them. What kinds of characters? Good cop vs bad cop The criminals/drug dealer What locations? At a police station   Well know city What representations would they expect? Racist representations Alpha male, police officer ...