| CATEGORY | FAMILIARITIES: from your chosen CSP’s | DIFFERENCES: from your chosen CSP’s | THEORY |
| CHARACTERS | In the Missing & Witnesses the main detectives have a ‘natural’ instinct and ethics for law and order / good and bad | In the Missing & Witnesses the main detective is not the typical ‘male hero’ Missing French, old, retired, limping. In Witnesses young, bold, female, French, immigrant, single mother | PROPP, presents the idea of STOCK CHARACTERS, inc ‘hero’, ‘false hero’, ‘princess’ (Witnesses), ‘father figure’, ‘despatcher’ (Missing) |
| NARRATIVE | Kernels, There are detectives in both series and they both include crime. Satellites are things that can be left out and wouldn’t have a massive impact if they weren’t included for example the Witnesses was set in Normandy and The Missing was set in Germany. | 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) | |||
