1. Life on Mars Overview...
1. A DCI named Sam Tyler had a car accident trying to save his girlfriend who then wakes up in 1973.
2. Sam awakes as detective inspector, one rank lower than his 2006 rank of Detective chief inspector.
3. Sam works under the command of Gene hunt who work together at the same station and same location as in 2006.
4. Sam and Gene can be seen as two different characters but really there both the same but in different times.
5. During the first episode a murder has been committed and its up to both same and Gene to find out who.
6. Sam goes to the store that he bought his first record and sees a piece of material that he had seen in the finger tips of the women killed in
2006.
7. Sam and gene interview a next door neighbour and find out the criminal is next door.
8. They go inside and arrest the criminal , then Sam sees this little boy who would soon be the criminal in the future.
9. Sam is told how to get back to the future and goes to the top and the building but then turns around and changes his mind.
2. Life on mars Title sequence
Sam on the floor injured with car behind him suggests he's been hit.
Looking in a car mirror is ironic that he was hit by a car.
Dress codes are very dull colours, grey, brown suggesting he sin the 70’s
Typography is very stripped back and plain, and the cubism along with the colour palette gives
of a very 70’s vibe.
The speed of everything suggests how fast its happened.
Mars flickering from time or Mars suggests a timeline from where he was to where he is now.
Police badge signifies he's in power.
Cigarette and his hair scuffed up shows he's the more bad cop which connotes the idea of
binary oppositions, and how they attract.
Sam throwing a punch to gene shows there's a fight which isn’t that far into the film.
Gun and mask signifies the criminal.
The sound track sounds very sifi reflecting how he's went back in time.
Sam and Gene punching someone at the same time shows how they're now working together
supporting the idea how opposites attract.
Camera angle spinning when Sam spins round suggests he's confused and lost.
Close up on eyes lets us understand parts of what he's going through and how crazy his mind is.
Title in crosshair like a rifle sight.
Other iconography such as photographs of the victim and evidence bags are iconic of the
genre.
