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
Phones in the office
Hearing hospital noises
The song, life on mars
Men talking loudly
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
They may like this programme as they will be able
to relate to these years and what goes on then
and now. I don’t think it will shape views on how
people think as it was set in the past.
Industry –
Marketing & Promoting
Other platforms?
(DVD/online)
BBC Monday 9:00 Follow on from ashes to ashes
another TV series.