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Settings

How is the setting significant to crime dramas that you have seen? Eg Miami, London and whitechapel.
What dies the setting connotate- what do we assocaite with the settings
What opportunities arise from using the setting.
The setting is significant to crime dramas as they can give you a overall understanding of where it is set and how that effects viewers. It is significant to how the crimes will be solved and who will solve them, For example:Luther:
In luther it is set in the lower class of london, estates places like that. This reminds of the riots in 2011. Its going to be more rough and gritty, not like the higher class of  london. Kind of shows that the cops that are solving arent exactly going to be on the right side of the law, it will show through there surroundings behind them aswell. With this setting we associate more gangs, young peoples and homeless people getting killed.
Sherlcok:
Also sherlcok is set in London but its set more in the upper class areas like Baker street, the more richer side, also this shows in characters to how they dress, how they groom there self, take care of there apperience. With this setting we associate more band robberies and higher money crimes.

Crime Drama Audiences

Crime Drama Audiences

Criminal Minds The Fisher King Part 1

The team is splitting up for a holiday. Although they are on different locations, only Derek Morgan and Elle Greenaway stay in the same Jamaican hotel where a friend gave him a good rate. Suddenly they all get abrupt proof of the activity of a killer who calls Hotch -at his family home- telling him not the mind the first victims but save the girl. The diverse, personal clues prove he knows each team member well, as it turns out hacked from Garcia's computer files, and all fit in one grand scheme. Several clues converge to a certain Frank Ginley who got many convictions, but at his Langley home they find his corps, the start of a new elaborate series of clues for what he calls the team's quest, and it's obviously unusually personal, not sexual. There is a cliffhanger...
Huggo
While J.J. and Garcia remain at work, the BAU field agents are on a mandated two week vacation, to which they are all looking forward. Morgan and Greenaway are vacationing together, but separately, at a resort in Montego Bay, Jamaica, it managed by Morgan's friend. Reid is visiting his schizophrenic institutionalized mother in Las Vegas. Gideon, without telling anyone, is at his cabin entertaining a friend. And Hotch is at home catching up with his wife, Haley, and newborn son, Jack. While on this break, all on the team are contacted in different way by an unknown third party, informing them to "save her". Some of their contact indicates unequivocally that someone has already died. And Garcia's computer has been hacked, much of the team's personal information included as what was taken. All the information they receive are clues to a puzzle, which includes the individuals on the team. Gideon tries the tactic of not following the unsub's rules, with unexpected results.

Bones, Season 1 Episode 1

Returning to Washington, D.C., after two months in Guatemala, where she was identifying victims of genocide, renowned forensic anthropologist Dr. Temperance Brennan is accosted at the airport by an agent from Homeland Security for carrying a human skull in her bag. Upon the arrival of FBI Special Agent Seeley Booth, Brennan is released, which she finds odd and realizes that it was his plot to get her to help him on an FBI case. She refuses to help until Booth promises her full participation in the case.

At the crime scene, Brennan and Booth find decomposed human remains with only the bones remaining. Brennan and her assistant, Zack Addy (Eric Millegan), determine the victim is a woman 18 to 22 years old and was a tennis player. Back at the Jeffersonian Institute, Brennan argues with her boss, Dr. Daniel Goodman, for assigning her to work with other federal agencies without consulting her.

Inside the Medico-Legal Lab of the Jeffersonian Institute, Brennan examines the victim's remains while her colleagues inquire about the resemblances between themselves and the characters in her new book, Bred in the Bone. Dr. Jack Hodgins (T. J. Thyne), an entomologist, finds that the victim has been in the pond for more than two summers. Hodgins has also found small bone fragments in the silt, which he guesses are rana temporaria or, simply, frog bones. Angela Montenegro (Michaela Conlin), a forensic artist, uses a computer program she has developed, called the Angelator, to make a three-dimensional holographic reconstruction of the reassembled skull. The victim is revealed to be Cleo Louise Eller, a missing senate intern who was rumored to have had an affair with Senator Bethlehem.

Brennan wants to confront the Senator but Booth argues that he is not the only suspect. The Senator's aide, Ken Thompson, was Cleo's boyfriend. There is also Cleo's stalker, Oliver Laurier. Booth tells Brennan that they have a major case and that FBI Deputy Director Cullen is going to want to set up a special unit to investigate. To do everything by the book he wants her to stay at her lab; but Brennan coerces Booth into agreeing to let her come with him into the field.

Based on the particulates embedded in Cleo's skull, Hodgins determines that Cleo's skull may have been smashed by a sledgehammer on a cement floor with diatomaceous earth. By the distinctive damage done to her finger pads and the way the body was hidden, the team determines that the murderer had put a lot of effort into hiding the body. Hodgins also reveals that Cleo was taking medicine for her depression, while Brennan realizes that the small bones found with Cleo's body are not frog bones but fetal ear bones, indicating Cleo Eller was pregnant.

Hodgins, a devout conspiracy theorist, convinces Brennan that they may never find the truth because Senator Bethlehem will impede the investigation. Without telling Booth, Brennan recklessly confronts the Senator. Consequently, Deputy Director Cullen removes Booth from the case, but Brennan refuses to give up. With the help of her fellow scientists, she uncovers evidence that Cleo Eller's boyfriend Ken Thompson, had killed Cleo because he feared the scandal Cleo's pregnancy would cause and affect his career.

Narratives

Give Examples of opening teasers in the shows you've seen,
-In the second episode of season 1 of luther, a man is pretending to be dead and as the police pull up and get out he stands ups and shoots them dead and takes on of their radio's, then the title sequence comes on,
-Girl is seen at a party then the screen turns to he tied to a football post being stoned to death, then the title sequence come on
Whats examples of enigmas have you seen?
-In sherlock, he sees that the dead woman has mud splatter up the left side of her leg, he the figures out that she must of had a suitcase and the splatter on her leg is from the small wheels and he also digures out that she was holding something in her right hand because most people are right handed and would normall pull a suitcase with thier right hand unless they were doing something with thier dominant hand.
-in luther a police woman gets shot in the stomach, they know the killer is a trained marksman but cant understand why the killer would leave this police officer alive and have such a sloppy shot, but then luther realises its an ambush and all the killer wanted was to get the other police officers to the scene so he could kill even more in one go,
How would you describe the 'quests' of the key protagonists of the crime dramas,
-Horatio does his job becvause he wants to clean up the streets of miami
-Luther does his jobs because he enjoys the excitement and because his job keeps him on edge,
-Sherlock does his job as a hobby, Sherlock doesnt even get paid to do his job,
How have shows you've seen use either closed or open naratives?
-In Luther you find out who the killier is straight away but for luther its all about proving they done it for his own satisfaction,
-In CSI: Miami you only find out who the killier is right at the end of the show, withing about 5 minutes of the credits,

Csi: crime scene investigation

Two young men are found in the deserts, they had crashed their car up against a tree, the driver had a splinter of wood in his hand but It wasn't the same type of wood as the tree they crashed into, they find out they are students at a local university, then they see that a deer is dead and the find a baseball bat, the wood in the mans hand is the same as the baseball bat, but then they see that cars tire had been shot and this caused the crash, and then the search the data base for the bullet and find out it military issue so they find out who left the nearby military base that night and find the gun in the persons pillow, the end,

Set Pieces

-The laboratory Scene

the scene were the forensic side of the show takes place

-Interrogation Scene

where the suspects are questioned

-The Eureka Moment

when the investagator find a peice of evidence then thing just click

-Crime Scene

police tape,

cones,

people in blue investor overalls,    

in the Crime Scene setpieces, they also look for a murder weapon, in this case its these rocks...

they also look for all types of evidence at the crime scene,

Drag marks on the floor by the victims car,

-Arrest/ Confession

-Crime Flash Back

shows you the crime that the team are investigating happening,

shows how the person died/ what happened in real time,

-The Chase/ Dash/ Action Scene

-Notification of Next of Kin

-Autopsy Scene

informs you on the cause of death

-Press Conference

a very tense scene,

you are informed more on the crime,

it makes the programme seem more realistic,

24 season1 episode1

Jack Bauer is at home with his family and his daughter says that she is going to go to bed, but because jack and his ex wife have just got together again, the daughter is struggling to get used to it, so jack and his wife decide to go and talk to her in her room but they find she had snuck out of the house to go and see a boy, so they try and call her but she doesn't answer, the girl was actually with her friend and two boys and they were going to a furniture store where one of the boys worked, jack then was called into work an told the was a 'matter of national security' and he is the only one who can know, the a suspicious man comes into ctu so jack tranquillisers him and does some investigating and find that he conducted a bogus investigation and pocketed $200,000, so jack calls the boss, restrictive narrative, 24 part series, only revealed on the 24 th episode, no much to write about this ? :/

Homeland, Season 1 Episode 1

Woman in Baghdad, man in American, on the phone about a hostage who is sentenced to death,the woman in baghdad goes to see the hostage, the woman promises to protect the hostages family, the screen fast forwards to 3 months later, the woman goes to a CIA meeting, the show a video of an American hero being found after being presumed dead for 8 years ago, the woman says that the hostage said that 'an American fighter had been turned' meaning a soldier has been converted to the enemy, the soldiers wife gets a call from him saying hes alive so she goes to see him, the wife rushes to tell her kids that their father is alive, by this time, the soldier is on a plane on his way home, the hostage gets I'll on the plane, the wife and children wait and meet the soldier!,there is a big emotional meeting, the soldier meets and greets the president, the team ads eyes and ears to the soldiers house, the man meets an old friend,

NCIS - Season 8 - Episode 2: Worst Nightmare

Kids all fall asleep/faint in class as if they have inhaled something?, ambulances, police tape, gas tank found connected to the air filter system, questioning/interrogation with teacher of the class, the register was taken by the investigators as 105 students but there was in fact 106 students and the one girl was unaccounted for, more questioning but this time of grandad, forensic labs (this is a very forensic series), person who placed the gas cylinder was jeering gloves, but the forensic scientist does find a shoe print for a 'work boot', no known chemicals match the gas used, so they conclude they are looking for someone with a chemistry background, traced phone from grandad, anonymous caller with a digitally altered voice, ransom was demanded for the missing girl, the team go to the meeting point and find the body of a man wearing workbooks like the footprint found on the gas canister, the NCIS team receives a call from the grandad that isn't traceable, the grandad tells the team that he killed the mad in the alley out of self defense, the man died of a broken neck and other extensive injuries, the team get a tip from a psychic who says she saw the missing girl in a 'vision' but the team blows it out the water, could that be a red herring?, then the team receives a video of the missing girl in a dark room saying 'please don't hurt me', then the team get a call from the man with the altered voice, it demands $1,000,000 for the girl, the team went to the granddad house and find a dead man, the conclude that the dead man is one of the kidnappers, and they also conclude that the grandad killed the man but this time not out of self defense, the parents tell the team there is a lock box under the granddad floor, the team leader gets money from the evidence bank for the ransom, they steak out a local chemist because it's where the chemical was made and the find the grandad and another dead body, then the grandad tells the team that he didn't kill the men because they are on his team, and then he said 'the kidnappers are playing all of you, more interrogation of the grandad, but this time in NCIS head quarters, the grandad tells the team that he was part of a small group of operatives that experimented with orders given to the by the president called grey stone, the grandad was supposed to never talk to his team after the operations where canceled but he did when his granddaughter was kidnapped, but the girl was all a diversion, and the people didn't want the girl, they wanted the operative team dead, so now the are trying to find the girl, then they find out the girls teacher was in the operative team!, the teacher is the kidnapper and he no longer wants the ransom, but now he wants the grandad dead, the team shot the grandad and the other man is happy, then the team gets the girl and then the reveal it was all fake and the grandad is still alive, and the teacher gets taken away! The end :)

CSI: New York Season 8 Episode 2

Keep It Real! Police tape, forensic evidence, male victim, money left next to dead body, room mate missing, restrictive narrative, break in, shot close range, first suspect is the victims partner, definitely a male dominated show, more of a white show, only one investigator who is black (sheldon) the motive for the murder was counterfeit money, random piece of snake skin found on the victim, later turned out to be a fake piece of snake skin used for something to do with fake nails, second suspect is the boss of the victims parter, he was found to be the killer,

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