Tuesday, September 14, 2021

POLICE PROCEDURAL GENRE CONVENTIONS

 We discussed police procedural genre conventions and compared those of Endeavour, with Cuffs.

We identified several mise-en-scene codes, such as clothing, codes, locations, uniforms, weapons, ranks. There was more evidence of violent crime, whereas Cuffs is pre-watershed and has to be family friendly.

we noticed differences. Cuffs is set in the 2020's so there are representations of different ethnicities, of gay people, of women.



We then watched the opening title sequence to Strike. This TV programme is about a disillusioned private detective (rather than a police force). The colours are low-key and dirty. The title sequence uses strong contrast lighting - chiaroscuro

We then experimented with setting up photos to achieve a similar effect.

Props included a fedora, cape, mackintosh and guns.

This is the photo we took in class. We were trying to show a silhouette of someone being held at gun point.   


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