POLICE PROCEDURAL GENRE CONVENTIONS

We discussed police procedural genre conventions and compared those of endeavour with cuffs.. We identified several miss-en-scene codes such as clothing codes, locations, uniforms, weapons, ranks. There was more evidence of violent crimes, whereas cuffs is pre-watershed and has to be family-friendly.

 We noticed differences: Cuffs is set in the 2020s so there are representations of different ethnicities, of gay people, of women.

We then watched the opening title sequence to Strike. This TV programme is about a disillusioned private detective (rather than a police force). The colours are low-key and dirty. The title sequence uses strong contrast lighting - chiaroscuro. 

We then experimented with setting up photos to achieve a similar effect.

Props included a fedora, cape, mackintosh and guns.

This is a photo we took in the lesson. We were trying to make it look like a police officer in the old days had a gun held up to him. This is representing the genre.