The Killing

The Killing is an American crime drama television series that premiered 2007 , on AMC, based on the Danish television series Forbrydelsen (The Crime). 

film was originally danish, however was reproduced in April 3, 2011, in english language – this helped target a more national and global audience, as it gained a larger audience through having a recreating in a different language.

No Offfence

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). Looks at social issues in Manchester

• produced by Paul Abbots company AbbottVision – an independent company – Paul Abbots also wrote the shameless ( an American comedy drama.
• deals with a range of social, cultural and politcal issues arising from comtemporay contexts. – the Manchester police force is used as a microcosm of society – focus of case featuring children with downs syndrome explores the position of people with disabilities in wider society.
• The economic context can be explored through
• patterns of ownership and production and how the product is marketed nationally and globally.in the uk, first e.p was launched with 2.5 million viewers – aired on Channel 4 (Biggest mid week drama for around 3 years)
• the series average remained at 2.5 million and finished 47% up on channel 4s slot average
• In France, the first episode was launched in 2016, feb 26th on the channel France 2 – watched by 5.46 million viewers , 20.4% of tv audience.
• tv series that shows codes and conventions of the police procedural crime drama – combined with aspects of social realism
• genre = crime – allows students to be educated as it enables us to understand and reflect on the dynamic nature of genre.
• miss en scene ( arrange of props, scenery etc)
• provides a wide range of representational areas to explore: gender, location, city, race etc (represents Manchester and its implications of crime.
• The advertising campaigns (trailers, websites at home and abroad) for the series demonstrate how media producers target, attract and potentially construct audiences – we can link this to Cultivation theory (Gerbner)

cast:

Joanna Scanlan – a cast iron cop

Elaine Cassidy – a strong yet impulsive member of the team

Alexandra Roach – equally brillant detective

CATEGORY	SIMILARITIES	DIFFERENCES	THEORY
CHARACTERS	– They both have female detectives – both have a similar instinct on the case	(The Killing) has the main detective as female	PROPP ( presenting areas of stock charaters) – both present a stock character of. hero and a villian
NARRATIVE		(The killing) found out she was dead at start, normally they are found dead at the end	TODOROV/CHATMAN/TODOROV – both series use key themes to structure stories and characters around themes of family, community, law and order and justice.
THEMES	The killing – murder story No Offence – police team is dedicated to enforcing law and justice in a criminal ridden area. ( Manchester)	identity	LEVI-STRAUSS
REPRESENTATION		radical response- the detectives are females, normally seen as males.	PIERCE / BARTHES / SAUSSURE (SEMIOTICS) radical and reactionary representation of police, family, law and order – this is seen through a range of signs from audio, visual graphics, narrative etc.
TECHNICAL CODES / LANGUAGE OF MOVING IMAGE (music, setting, props, lighting, use of camera, editing etc)		clues are identified throughout the series

curran and seaton

• power without responsibility is concerned ( media landscapes has fallen under the control of global media conglomerates )

creaitivity vs commericality

• media industry is driven by the force of creativity and business
• media creatives – writers, directors, photographers – tasked to give us exciting athesticaly pleasing products
• media business managers –

are curran and seaton right in suggesting that mass audience products tend to be sanitised or lightweight?

conglomerate advanatages

• argue that prohibitive costs and risks associated with the production of media products has resulted in the organisation of media companies into vertically and horizontally aligned conglomerates.

COMMERICAL MEDIA – an organisation that makes or distributes products for economic gain. – makes profit for entertainment purposes.

No offence production company (abbotvison, an independent television production company) aired the programme on channel 4, making a profit of

horizontal integration = no offen was made by a independent production company called abbottvison, and has then aired onto the company channel 4.

vertically integration =

the killing: the produced by DR in coproduction with ZDF enterprises ( media company in minz germany)

no offence:

media concentration and media convergence =

The Killing is a detective crime drama that originally premiered on AMC. After two seasons AMC decided to cancel the series, but after a renegotiation between FOX and Netflix