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The show: The working name for my crime drama so far is 'Zealous'. Someone who is zealous spends a lot of time and energy in supporting something that they believe in very strongly, especially a political or religious ideal, so I thought that name matched perfectly with my killers intentions and mindset, plus the voiceover by them. I chose a crime drama to show on ITV as I saw that most evenings there are dramas shown, so I know that the genre is already known and popular on this channel. The initial plot line so far is to start off with flashbacks of the murder, to draw the audience in with mystery and the unknown. It will then lead on to reveal the killer explaining his story behind the murder in the voiceover, and why it happened. To finish, it will show the after effect from this key turning point in the narrative, showing what life is like now.
Target audience: By creating a crime drama, the perfect target audience to show it too would be would ITV, as I aim to target the working class and the higher educated, as they usually look for something that gives them a challenge whilst also entertaining and interesting, which I think my programme is exactly. The target age I am aiming at is an audience of 18-35 year old millennials. Millennials are about to become the most educated generation yet, making a puzzling and exciting crime drama a perfect option for them.
Genre;Codes and conventions: One of the key elements of a crime drama is verisimilitude, where the audience can recognise the representations of 'ordinary' people in an every day environment. I am going to film scenes on every day lives and environments as it creates realism for the audience, dramatising the murder that is going to follow after. The key turning point is also an element that every crime drama has. The audience expect this so I'm including it so that they don't feel disappointed and let down, which could put them off watching entirely. Crime dramas tend to be a male oriented genre, so the female killer counteracts with the stereotypical character types of a crime drama, whereas the female victim supports them.
Narrative structure: I will create an fictional audio-visual sequence of a key turning point in the narrative. This will include the murder and discovery of the body. The length of the sequence will be between 2 minutes 30 seconds and 3 minutes. The events after the murder will be shown chronologically, however the flashbacks of the murder will be shown along with the killers voice over, so the scene is portrayed as already happened.
Representation: The main characters based in my programme will include a female killer, but also a female victim. I feel like having the female as the victim is stereotypical which could reach out to a traditionalist audience, however, the counteracting, violent female role will attract a wider audience as I think that it is less expected and less stereotypical, so stands out as quite unique in a crime drama. The overpowered female main roles in this programme will also become a unique selling point, and appeal to a more feminist society.
Potential marketing strategies: A range of tv listing magazines that are sold in newspapers will advertise Zealous by showing it in the listings. As there are usually only one or two dramas shown on ITV each evening, I'd hope for a large picture to advertise the programme in the listings so that the readers attention is drawn towards it. Advertisements on tv is also another way in which this programme will be promoted. A short clip will be shown around the time that it would usually be shown and before and after programmes that are similar to it in genre, so that the audience the drama is aimed at will most likely be watching.
Production team: The production team will be myself, plus, I will take into account the actors' and actress' opinion on what could look best in front of the camera.
Camera work: Zealous will include close up camera shots, along with eye-line shots of characters, to connect the audience more with their emotions on screen, and also anything relatively important to the narrative. Panning shots will also appear to create the effect of realism to the scene, and to show what is happening on a wider scale.
Editing: Zealous will include flashbacks from the moment of the murder making the pace of the narrative seem quite fast and sudden, illustrating that life can be taken away in a quick moment. However, the overall pace of the other scenes will be much slower so that the grieving of the characters and overall feel to the narrative is embraced as a prolonged pain, which also reflects on the audience who will feel sympathy for the characters. Along with this the shot durations will be a bit longer than usual, apart from the flashbacks of course, so around 5 seconds average each. This will add to the pace and rhythm of the situation. There will be match on action editing as well; the audience will see the killer move in one shot and then see his continuation of the movement in another shot. Zealous will have continuity editing, apart from the flashbacks to the murder which make it non-continuity as they are not happening at that time when the audience are seeing it. Apart from that, everything else will flow in order. I hope to also include a fade to black shot for one transition, instead of just straight cuts the entire time, and I will use this after the murder to imply the passing of time. Cross-cutting (parallel editing) between the victim and impending danger (the killer), will make the audience feel anxiety and tension in anticipation of knowing something horrible is happening.
Mise en scene: The setting of Zealous will be set and filmed in a village. It will include scenes in scarce open fields and possibly woods to capture the sinister, abandoned aura that crime dramas have. Some scenes will also be of just regular home life to add to the realism of the narrative. The lighting will illustrate the mood of each scenes scene, when the murder happens there will be low key lighting and when nothing seems wrong the lighting will be the average daylight. Some scenes may involve lighting that counteracts the mood and narrative, such as when the murder has happened, the camera might show an everyday, normal home in daylight like nothing has happened. The main colour palette of Zealous will be restricted to bring a dusk and secretive feel to the programme, and its look. The costume, hair and make up of the characters will be minimal, as I would like them to be natural and ordinary, so that most of the audience can relate with them.
Sound: Zealous will have a non-diegetic soundtrack of slow eery music, and also maybe some classical music as well. At the moment of the murder I would like the music to slow down to counteract the action on screen, displaying contrapuntal sound, and to get the audience to focus on whats happening on screen and not what the musics doing. I will not use any direct dialogue from characters, instead, I will have a voice over of the killer whilst the murder is happening on screen, including some single shots of just them as well so that the audience can really understand who they are. I will not use sound effects that wouldn't fit with the scene, I will only use ones that the audience would expect to hear, but I may make certain ones louder so that the sound is dramatised to the audience.
Target audience: By creating a crime drama, the perfect target audience to show it too would be would ITV, as I aim to target the working class and the higher educated, as they usually look for something that gives them a challenge whilst also entertaining and interesting, which I think my programme is exactly. The target age I am aiming at is an audience of 18-35 year old millennials. Millennials are about to become the most educated generation yet, making a puzzling and exciting crime drama a perfect option for them.
Genre;Codes and conventions: One of the key elements of a crime drama is verisimilitude, where the audience can recognise the representations of 'ordinary' people in an every day environment. I am going to film scenes on every day lives and environments as it creates realism for the audience, dramatising the murder that is going to follow after. The key turning point is also an element that every crime drama has. The audience expect this so I'm including it so that they don't feel disappointed and let down, which could put them off watching entirely. Crime dramas tend to be a male oriented genre, so the female killer counteracts with the stereotypical character types of a crime drama, whereas the female victim supports them.
Narrative structure: I will create an fictional audio-visual sequence of a key turning point in the narrative. This will include the murder and discovery of the body. The length of the sequence will be between 2 minutes 30 seconds and 3 minutes. The events after the murder will be shown chronologically, however the flashbacks of the murder will be shown along with the killers voice over, so the scene is portrayed as already happened.
Representation: The main characters based in my programme will include a female killer, but also a female victim. I feel like having the female as the victim is stereotypical which could reach out to a traditionalist audience, however, the counteracting, violent female role will attract a wider audience as I think that it is less expected and less stereotypical, so stands out as quite unique in a crime drama. The overpowered female main roles in this programme will also become a unique selling point, and appeal to a more feminist society.
Potential marketing strategies: A range of tv listing magazines that are sold in newspapers will advertise Zealous by showing it in the listings. As there are usually only one or two dramas shown on ITV each evening, I'd hope for a large picture to advertise the programme in the listings so that the readers attention is drawn towards it. Advertisements on tv is also another way in which this programme will be promoted. A short clip will be shown around the time that it would usually be shown and before and after programmes that are similar to it in genre, so that the audience the drama is aimed at will most likely be watching.
Production team: The production team will be myself, plus, I will take into account the actors' and actress' opinion on what could look best in front of the camera.
Camera work: Zealous will include close up camera shots, along with eye-line shots of characters, to connect the audience more with their emotions on screen, and also anything relatively important to the narrative. Panning shots will also appear to create the effect of realism to the scene, and to show what is happening on a wider scale.
Editing: Zealous will include flashbacks from the moment of the murder making the pace of the narrative seem quite fast and sudden, illustrating that life can be taken away in a quick moment. However, the overall pace of the other scenes will be much slower so that the grieving of the characters and overall feel to the narrative is embraced as a prolonged pain, which also reflects on the audience who will feel sympathy for the characters. Along with this the shot durations will be a bit longer than usual, apart from the flashbacks of course, so around 5 seconds average each. This will add to the pace and rhythm of the situation. There will be match on action editing as well; the audience will see the killer move in one shot and then see his continuation of the movement in another shot. Zealous will have continuity editing, apart from the flashbacks to the murder which make it non-continuity as they are not happening at that time when the audience are seeing it. Apart from that, everything else will flow in order. I hope to also include a fade to black shot for one transition, instead of just straight cuts the entire time, and I will use this after the murder to imply the passing of time. Cross-cutting (parallel editing) between the victim and impending danger (the killer), will make the audience feel anxiety and tension in anticipation of knowing something horrible is happening.
Mise en scene: The setting of Zealous will be set and filmed in a village. It will include scenes in scarce open fields and possibly woods to capture the sinister, abandoned aura that crime dramas have. Some scenes will also be of just regular home life to add to the realism of the narrative. The lighting will illustrate the mood of each scenes scene, when the murder happens there will be low key lighting and when nothing seems wrong the lighting will be the average daylight. Some scenes may involve lighting that counteracts the mood and narrative, such as when the murder has happened, the camera might show an everyday, normal home in daylight like nothing has happened. The main colour palette of Zealous will be restricted to bring a dusk and secretive feel to the programme, and its look. The costume, hair and make up of the characters will be minimal, as I would like them to be natural and ordinary, so that most of the audience can relate with them.
Sound: Zealous will have a non-diegetic soundtrack of slow eery music, and also maybe some classical music as well. At the moment of the murder I would like the music to slow down to counteract the action on screen, displaying contrapuntal sound, and to get the audience to focus on whats happening on screen and not what the musics doing. I will not use any direct dialogue from characters, instead, I will have a voice over of the killer whilst the murder is happening on screen, including some single shots of just them as well so that the audience can really understand who they are. I will not use sound effects that wouldn't fit with the scene, I will only use ones that the audience would expect to hear, but I may make certain ones louder so that the sound is dramatised to the audience.
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