Investigating the Media
TV Crime Drama
Opening task: set up your own TV Crime Drama page, set a range of research tasks including viewing of TV dramas, investigating the audience and the institutions.
These task could involve:
- Analysis of TV schedules on the main channels and working out what times of day and what days TV crime dramas are broadcast
- Analysis of the types of characters one might expect to find in a TV crime drama - protagonists, antagonists, think about Propp
- Analysis of crime formats: research involving watching a range of different TV crime dramas and thinking about how these dramas tell their stories - Todorov narrative theory.
- Analysis of audiences: for example, teenagers and working out how these audience find out about the TV Crime dramas they watch - focus on new technology and use of marketing through the internet, use of social networking. Thinking about Uses and Gratifications theory.
This week:
Home Learning
Watch a crime drama: focus on narrative and characters - what are the conventions of the narrative, how the crime is set up, what are the characters, how are they introduced, how is the crime solved.
Your notes on the Crime Drama you watch must be published on your new TV Crime Drama page by next Tuesday.
