Tuesday, September 14, 2021

POLICE PROCEDURAL GENRE CONVENTIONS

 We discussed police procedural genre conventions and compared those 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.


We were experimenting with silhouettes and shadows and I think that it turned out well.



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