1. TV Crime Drama Conventions
Name of Drama
Life on mars
Broadcaster –
Scheduling details
Bhorat Nalluri BBC Monday 9:00
Conventions -
Characters
Sam Tyler
Gene Hont
Annie
Narrative A detective that gets hit by a car and gets sent
back in time to the 70s but has the same job. It is
real but actually in a coma
Mise-en-scene -
Locations
Sets
Lighting
Costume
70s
Smoking (smoke everywhere)
Manchester
Old cars, 70s clothing, people smoking inside
Old fashioned
Sound –
Key dialogue
Sound effects
Music
Hearing hospital noises
The song, life on mars
Audiences –
Who is the target
audience?
Male/Female
How might they react
differently?
Will it shape their views of
people, issues or events?
Male and female. Older audience perhaps people
that lived through the 70s
Industry –
Marketing & Promoting
Other platforms?
(DVD/online)
BBC Monday 9:00 Follow on from ashes to ashes.