Brief: Research
'Breaking Bad' is the new crime drama,
Opening Sequence for our Female Protagonist: Cristina Gomez.
We first meet Cristina Gomez while walking through the town center. She's on the phone to her boyfriend, explaining how she's out shopping. Having this as the first scene shows the audience that she is an ordinary woman and has a social life as well as her agent one. While she is on the phone, she sees another guy and instantly runs into the closest shop and hangs up on her boyfriend. She quickly picks up some ready-meals and uses her DCI ID to get to the front of the queue and pays for her shopping. On her way out she bumps into the guy she had previously acknowledged and they greet eachother with 'Hey baby' suggesting a boyfriend-girlfriend relationship. This other boyfriend the audience is unexpectedly introduced to questions her "I thought you were at work?" Gomez replies with "Yeah, just getting the team some food" "Isn't that the rookies job?" "Yeah, well it's Treat Team Tuesday! Got to go! Love ya!" with this, she runs off with his voice echoing "It's Friday!" .
Question 3. Why will 'Unfinished Business' be successful?
'Breaking Bad' is the new crime drama,
Opening Sequence for our Female Protagonist: Cristina Gomez.
We first meet Cristina Gomez while walking through the town center. She's on the phone to her boyfriend, explaining how she's out shopping. Having this as the first scene shows the audience that she is an ordinary woman and has a social life as well as her agent one. While she is on the phone, she sees another guy and instantly runs into the closest shop and hangs up on her boyfriend. She quickly picks up some ready-meals and uses her DCI ID to get to the front of the queue and pays for her shopping. On her way out she bumps into the guy she had previously acknowledged and they greet eachother with 'Hey baby' suggesting a boyfriend-girlfriend relationship. This other boyfriend the audience is unexpectedly introduced to questions her "I thought you were at work?" Gomez replies with "Yeah, just getting the team some food" "Isn't that the rookies job?" "Yeah, well it's Treat Team Tuesday! Got to go! Love ya!" with this, she runs off with his voice echoing "It's Friday!" .
Question 3. Why will 'Unfinished Business' be successful?
Teenagers are more interested in watching programmes that will allow them to escape from reality for a little while, for example; Eastenders is full of drama and interesting events which teenagers are hooked to making them hungry for more! The different characters they see everyday, with different personalities, each bringing different events allows teenagers to escape.. So I thought, why not apply this to a crime drama? Make it, different, funny, easy to keep up with and much more. This is why my crime drama, 'Unfinished Business' will be successful and appealing to teens.
Making it funny, to me, was the most important element to attracting teenagers and possibly other audiences. Crime drama's are known for being serious and information packed therefore a teenager turn-off. Having funny clips will also help with the promotion on television and radio as the dialogue will be just as funny as the shot itself. Obviously teenagers love to have a laugh and changing a serious genre to a more relaxed, humourous one is much more appealing.
As well as the humour making 'Unfinished Business' different, the context itself if very unusual yet interesting. The main characters are not stereotypical or predictable, such as the bi-sexual ex-cop (Christian) making the crimes more entertaining. The fact that other crime dramas are almost 100% focused on solving the crime makes it look boring to teenagers, but my crime drama will also focus on the main character trying to alter the crimes for his ex-partner as well as solving it making it much more intriguing. This creates a different binary opposition as the audience will be on Christians side even thugh he is doing bad things and will want him to succeed in doing so. Teenagers are also included in the programme, allowing the audience to relate to the characters in the Uses of Gratification Theory.
Although I have not yet decided on an on-going plot, the episodes will all be different, with a new case each time making it easier for the audience to keep up with as they won't need any other previous information as we are trying to limit the amount of information teenagers need to take in.
As well as the humour making 'Unfinished Business' different, the context itself if very unusual yet interesting. The main characters are not stereotypical or predictable, such as the bi-sexual ex-cop (Christian) making the crimes more entertaining. The fact that other crime dramas are almost 100% focused on solving the crime makes it look boring to teenagers, but my crime drama will also focus on the main character trying to alter the crimes for his ex-partner as well as solving it making it much more intriguing. This creates a different binary opposition as the audience will be on Christians side even thugh he is doing bad things and will want him to succeed in doing so. Teenagers are also included in the programme, allowing the audience to relate to the characters in the Uses of Gratification Theory.
Although I have not yet decided on an on-going plot, the episodes will all be different, with a new case each time making it easier for the audience to keep up with as they won't need any other previous information as we are trying to limit the amount of information teenagers need to take in.
My TV Crime Drama:
Title: Unfinished Business Characters: Christian Miller (26) - Bi-sexual sacked cheif police off. (Main)
Paulo Avery (27) - New chief. (Villain?)
Pandora Darnell (22) - Helps Christian secretly
Basic plot: Christian Miller is a bi-sexual man who is the Director of a Police Force base located in D.C but then is sacked by the head of the entire Police Force (for reasons I have not come up with yet). He is soon replaced by his ex-boyfriend, Paulo Avery. Christian soon uses one person from his team to keep him updated on crimes that Paulo is set to solve. Christian goes to all extents to solve the crimes before Paulo and puts him in very awkward positions. Christian does this as he believes he does a better job than him and he hates the fact he is replaced by him.
1st Ep: You will see Christian getting fired as a result of this he argues and goes into work anyway causing more trouble. You see him attempting to hack into the system from home to access case files.. he fails. You see him doing all he can to do his un-assigned job, the episode ends with Paulo being given the job. Everything that he tries to do creates humour.
Target Audience: 15+ : Dangerous behaviour; sexual activity may be portrayed without strong detail; violence may be strong; frequent use of strong language.
Hybrid: Comedy
Sub-genre: Murder/Mystery
Time slot/Channel: Channel 5, 21:30, duration: 1hr.
Tweet Press Release: "Have you ever done something you're not suppose too? We all have havn't we? What if it had your whole reputation and life at stake? Christian Miller, a bi-sexual ex-cop goes to huge lengths to solve the citys' crimes secretly after being sacked and replaced by his enemy! DON'T MISS OUT ON THIS SUMMERS NEW, HILARIOUS CRIME DRAMA: UNFINISHED BUSINESS ON CHANNEL 5! #unfinishedbusiness"
Things I am going to do to prepare for June 2012 exam:
- Research a wide range of TV Crime Drama's and analyse them.
1. Post on blog
2. Analyse 1 a day/4 a week
- Survey target audience (teenagers)
- Research programmes E4 broadcast
- Create potential ideas and attempt to write a pitch
Research on TV Crime Drama's
NCIS; channel FX at 8pm.
http://fxuk.com/shows/ncis/about
NCIS always follows the structure of showing the actual crime (ie. the dead person or the person being shot) then it being reported and the NCIS team sorting it out gradually and then solving it. Straight after a break when it resumes, it shows a single black and white shot of a characters facial expression which is then the last shot of that section before another break/it ends.
Characters: NCIS appeals to me as a teenager because it involves humour such as a characters named DiNozzo who 'bullies' a probie in his team, he is easily distracted and is always slapped behind the head by his boss, Gibbs.
- Gibbs is the boss and he seems very serious, and is. However, his humourous side does come out now and then and never fails to create laughter. He also sneaks up on everyone at wrong times for the team as he over hears conversations that the team shouldnt be talking about.
- Forensic Specialist is a gothic type girl, Abby. Who is funny, perky and always joyful, this is not a typical forensic specialist.
NCIS is also different to other TV Crime Dramas because the way the characters are represented are different and interesting, therefore the audience can vary.I think it is mainly aimed at young adults and older because it includes them in the programme aswell as being based around them. Audience attaction also depends on the humour NCIS involves and personal relationships the audience could relate too. I assume the target audience isnt too young due to the gory-ness of scenes.
Major marketing campaigns took place to promote NCIS via. social networks, newspapers and bus boards contents were also available to viewers in order to feel closer to the super-series.
I have noticed that NCIS is all about close up and dialogue; both a language in itself providing crucial information for the audience, close ups for facial expressions and evidence found, also dialogue for researched information found.
NCIS production co. is mainly Paramount Network Television & CBS Paramount Network Television.
Criminal Mind; channel Sky Living
http://www.cbs.com/shows/criminal_minds/
Being new to this Crime Drama; I couldnt help but notice the difference in characters which is very similar to NCIS.
Characters: Garcia. She is a 'computer nerd' and has her own style which is almost hippy like. She is the most enthusiastic within the team and she is completely different compared to the others.
- The leader of the team is very serious and focused with the job ahead.
-There is also the REALLY smart character who occasionally bursts into information yet so lovable. I have also noticed that Criminal Minds is based around fake situations and over exaggerated crime scenes which makes it unrealistic.
The audience is probably based around young adults as the characters are young adults themselves and play a huge part in the programme. It is also quite a serious programme which relates to adults and apply more to them; it may also be interesting to them because the whole concept of it is to think! This could be just a 'puzzle' to work out during spare time as it comes on Sky LIVING.
Production co. : Paramount Network Television
I took a part of a review which compares the two: 'I have watched each episode of Criminal Minds, and I agree with the writer from Canada about this show (and also about their comments on NCIS, which seems to have more spark and humor than the other CSI shows).'
This shows the type of features that intruige the audiences and I think a humourous crime drama is essencial!
