Day: 14 November 2019

CATEGORY	SIMILARITIES	DIFFERENCES	THEORY
CHARACTERS	-the detective who has a ‘natural’ instinct for law and order -female protagonists	The Killing, The missing has the main detective as female	PROPP
NARRATIVE	-the first episode often introduces a lot of different characters -has a peak due to the victim being discovered/found	-missing peaks at start (girl comes back), killing starts at equilibrium (don’t know severity of case)	TODOROV
THEMES	-the use of binary oppositions around familiar themes: family, community, law and order, justice. -crime drama	–	LEVI-STRAUSS
REPRESENTATION	-reactionary representations of police, family, law and order, urban/rural -radical representations of the main detective(female)	–	SEMIOTICS
TECHNICAL CODES / LANGUAGE OF MOVING IMAGE (music, setting, props, lighting, use of camera, editing etc)	-opening montage sequence that often gives clues as to the whole series – themes, locations, characters, events etc. -fast paced -a lot shown to show how dramatic it Is and jam packed	-killing has less dramatic music than missing

Theorist	What does it mean (in your own words)	How does it apply to the advert (in your own words)
Equilibrium	everything is balance, conflict occurs and at the end it will be solved.	they begin with plain clothes and then after using the masacar they transform
Binary Opposition	related items that have opposite meanings	male and female and their gender.
Character Types	hero, victim, villain and princess who are recognized by the audiences	bell boy is the despacher, mascara is the hero and/or nyc

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