| CATEGORY | FAMILIARITIES: from your chosen CSP’s | DIFFERENCES: from your chosen CSP’s | THEORY |
| CHARACTERS | In ‘The Killing’ and ‘No Offence’ the characters are similar because they are centered around police characters. | In ‘The Killing’ the characters are danish and in ‘No Offence’ they’re English | PROPP, presents the idea of STOCK CHARACTERS, inc ‘hero’, ‘false hero’, ‘princess’ (Killing), ‘father figure’, ‘despatcher’ (No Offence) |
| NARRATIVE | CHATMAN / FREYTAG /TODOROV | ||
| THEMES | LEVI-STRAUSS the use of key themes to structure stories and characters around familiar themes: family, community, law and order, justice. Often set up as binary oppostions: right/wrong urban/rural, young/old, good/bad | ||
| REPRESENTATION | PIERCE / BARTHES / SAUSSURE: SEMIOTICS radical and reactionary representations of police, family, law and order, through a range of signs (visual, graphic, audio, narrative, thematic etc) | ||
| TECHNICAL CODES / LANGUAGE OF MOVING IMAGE (music, setting, props, lighting, use of camera, editing etc) |
