The two i’ve picked: No offence and The Killing
The Killing
A Danish tv programme that’s synopsis is ‘a crime series that follows the police investigation of the murder of a young girl. It interlocks three different stories.’ There is 44 episodes and was produced in Vancouver by Veena Sud it can fit into these genres: Serial, Drama, Mystery, Thriller, Crime film, Adventure, Crime Fiction, Action/Adventure and Police procedural. Stream on amazon prime or BBC but original broadcast was DR1. Denmark’s first television station.
Original UK air date | UK ratings (BBC Four) | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | “Episode 1” | 7 January 2007 | 1,550,000 | 22 January 2011 | 472,000 |
| CATEGORY | FAMILIARITIES | DIFFERENCES | THEORY |
| CHARACTERS | the detective who has a ‘natural’ instinct for law and order | The Killing, The mising has the main detective as female | PROPP |
| NARRATIVE | the first episode often introduces a lot of different characters | The missing girl was found dead in the first episode. | TODOROV |
| THEMES | the use of binary oppositions around familiar themes: family, community, law and order, justice. | identity. a female is the main hero. | LEVI-STRAUSS |
| REPRESENTATION | reactionary representations of police, family, law and order, urban/rural | Radical gender roles and having a male sidekick | 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. | | |
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- Who is the primary, secondary and tertiary audience for this product?
The primary audience is people who speak Swedish or are Sweden because it is a language they would understand. Secondary could be Netflix watchers.
the character of Sarah Lund is a familiar detective stereotype and conforms to the concept of the celebrity detective
No Offence
No Offence is a British television police procedural drama on Channel 4, created by Paul Abbott. It follows a team of detectives from Friday Street police station, a division of the Manchester Metropolitan Police (a fictional version of the Greater Manchester Police). Channel 4
- No Offence was broadcast on France2 the public service broadcaster, to very high viewing figures; the perceived weakness of French broadcast TV provides opportunities for export.
- the series’ focus on the detective narrative and crime drama is familiar and understood globally, the representation of the independent, female detective has proven popularity.