MS3 Coursework

Chelsie Hextall

Key term chosen

• Genre– Introduction of a film/TV program– trailer

• Representations– Documentary

• An illustration of how the police are represented in the medium of television, contrasting between television shows made in the UK, and America.

• What is the genre representing about the police? – Showing the police or the cities in which the drama is set?– How much of the story is reliant upon the location? i.e CSI:

Vegas – Reliant upon gambling, sex, prostitution, money, drugs

• Narrative

Texts Chosen

• 2 films

• 2 TV programmes

• 2 music videos

• 2 websites

• 2 magazines

• 2 newspapers

• 2 adverts

Crime/ Police?• Representation and contrast between how USA and the UK represent the police/

crime• How is crime represented?• How do police deal with it?• What level of police are represented?

– Bobby on the beat• The Bill (UK)• Hill street Blues (USA)

– Detectives in C.I.D• Colombo (USA)• Tagart (UK)• FBI – Criminal Minds (USA)• Spooks (UK)• The Mentalist (USA)

• Private investigators– Miss Marple. (UK)– Sherlock Holmes. (UK)– Rockford files. (USA)– Murder she wrote (USA)

What To Look At?

• Same Subject matter?– Cold Case (US) Vs Waking The Dead – open case re

investigated. Unsolved crimes looked at again. – Law and order (US) Vs Law and order (UK) –

Detection and prosecution– Bones (USA) Vs Silent Witness (UK) – Forensics– The Mentalist (USA) Vs Wire in the blood (UK) –

Human Behaviour

• What Level Of Police?• Bobby Vs Detective?

Police Structures

Police Structures• Programs based around two main characters in a partnership usually a

superior and his/her subordinate– Delzial and pascoe (UK)– Morse (UK)– Lewis (UK)– Midsomer murders (UK)– Foyle's War (UK)– Inspector Linley (UK)

• Team based units– NCIS (USA)– Hawaii five-o (USA)– Tagart (UK)– The Mentalist (USA)– Nub3rs (USA)– Waking the dead (UK)– Wire in the blood (UK)

Police in films

• Spin offs from television such as – Starsky and hutch – Miami vice.

• Films– Dirty harry– Pink Panther– I Robot

Crime or police

• Films can glamorise the police or the crime.

• Crime– Transporter– Catch me if you can– Oceans eleven, twelve, thirteen

• Police– Minority report

Representation of gender through police structure.

Females running the Field

• Hettie - NCIS: LA

• Teresa Lisbon - Mentalist

Text 1 – NCIS: LA

• http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L3hoqgtKtw4&feature=BFa&list=SL&index=17 – Hettie

• Suit – shows authority and looks smart working in an office type environment.

• Hair short out off the way, nothing to bother with.• Glasses out off date doesn't mind not into

fashion .• Shorter and people look down to her however

they have the highest respect for her and her knowledge.

Text 2 - Mentalist

• http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wp5VNqbv2Z4 – Teresa Lisbon - 0.46

• Long hair more conventional for females• Has natural make up on shows that she has time

for her self and cares about how she looks.• In a suit – Authority/ business – shows she's

here to do a job not to just drink coffee and let the males take charge.

• How she gives out information/orders shows that she's in charge and for her to be in charge she must be respected.

Comparing the two texts

• Overall with both females being in charge this is unconventional as normally males like to be “the boss” as women are stereotypically seen as much more weaker.

• Although both females are dress sense are similar their appearance is very different with height, hair, makeup.

• Similarities though are that they both wear delicate necklaces being so delicate reminds the audience that they are still females and the stereotypes off being more emotional, weaker and more fragile then men still apply.