Both 'The Wire' and 'The Bill' are stimulation's to our crime drama, as aspects of realism are created, in which we want our crime drama to hold. This allows us to gain ideas for methods in which we can achieve this. Although both these dramas are crime based drama they are productions from 2 different nations. This will allow our group to combine the two different styles of production and produce a sufficient crime drama which is relative to both national technical approaches.
The wire: This is an American crime drama, which is based on the crime of murder revolved around drugs.
Mise en scene:
· Costuming of the police officers states their profession and typical criminal clothing of hooded tops.
· Figure expression of victims’ friend portrays loss as keeps a still yet upset expression through his turgid body language.
· Props such a police vans, white gloves for detective, police uniform and walky-talky for officers.
· Setting in a dark street, during late hours of the day.
· Bright lighting when camera focused on an object or person.
Sound:
· Dogs barking, this creates fear and tension of the situation
· Police siren, this is an obvious convention that a crime has been convicted
· Dialogue, this is used for emphasis on characters involved in the situation but also characters reactions
· Background voices, the talking pursues realism
· Wind, this creates an atmosphere on the situation, in this case cold and hallow
· Music, this creates energy and pace to the crime drama
Camera techniques:
· Track left of the trail of blood from the victim
· Close up of the officer picking up a source of evidence
· Extreme long shot to portray the whole scene of the crime and the background, allowing immediate insight of situation.
· Shot reverse shot of the victims’ friend and an officer discussing the situation and the victim, allows viewer to concentrate on dialogue.
· Extreme close up of the victims’ friend to show his facial expression and reaction to the situation that had occurred.
· Low angle of the victims’ face, which shows his friend in the background, maybe suggesting he was looked up at by his friends.
Editing:
· Cut from crime scene to conversation of officer and victims’ friend
· Fade in from one area of the crime scene to another.
Narrative:
· A member of a gang is shot dead as he goes out as usual on a Friday to take drugs and sell it to regular punters, however unfortunately this time he was shot dead over drugs.
Genre conventions:
· The genre conventions are the use of police officers, a victim and a murder crime scene.
The Bill: This is a British crime drama, which has been running over 10 years and is extremely popular within the British society. There are a variety of crimes which occur over a period of time. However the audience is able to follow the sequence of reservation to the crime over a number of episodes.
Mise en scene:
· Costuming- the officers are in a typical officers uniform, a white shirt, tie and black trousers and the criminal is quite casually dressed.
· Figure movement of the criminal suggest loss of control as he is unable to stable himself. Also, the dominant officers dominate themselves by portraying a stable posture.
· Props used are police cars, walky-talkies, ambulance and a drink detector.
· The crime scene is set on the street during late hours, but also moves to a police station and a hospital
· The lighting varies from location to location as on the street it is quite dark and when inside a building bright lighting is shown.
Sound:
· Police sirens are present this is to reinforce the idea of a crime being committed.
· Dialogue of the officers is used to engage the audience into the narrative of the crime.
· Car horns create a sense of business as it is usually the sight of traffic, which in this case emphasises the situation of the crime being.
· Doors opening and closing as well as footsteps are used to pursue realism and add a more realistic effect to the episode.
Camera techniques:
· Hand held of the camera creates energy and adds effect to the conditions.
· Point of view- this gives the audience an insight of the driver and potential criminal in this case.
· Long shot- this is used to illustrate the whole foreground of the crime scene and creates realism as all aspects are shown to be present such as in a ‘real’ crime scene.
· Extreme close ups are used when the officer is shown to be looking at the driver present in an accident. This allows the audience to make meaning of the expressions pursued on the officers’ face.
· A low angle is used when two officers are walking towards the station; this forces the audience to view the officers from a low angle assembling them to look up at the officers. This emphasises their status.
Editing:
· Blurs are used quite frequently when showing the point of view of the driver, this adds to the situation of the accident but also the state the driver was in.
· Cuts are used to move from one location to another in this case from the station to the crime scene then to the hospital.
Narrative:
· The narrative of this episode was an officer which had been involved in an accident of his own fault due to exceeding his limit of alcohol when driving. This resulted into a crash, which killed a woman on the road.
Genre conventions:
· The genre conventions are a criminal which is also a victim of an accident, police officers and medics.
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