The document provides guidance for students to create their own TV crime drama for an exam, including defining key elements like the program title, genre, characters, setting, and intended audience. Students are instructed to plan these elements in 5 minutes for each section, and then receive feedback from a partner on 2 effective features and 1 thing to improve. Finally, students conduct a self-assessment based on how many genre-related keywords they incorporated into their idea.

1. 14/03/12
What TV Crime Drama are you going to create?
•To develop your own TV Crime Drama in preparation for the Exam
•To conduct “audience feedback”
•To self assess current “working at” level
God I hope my
Crime Drama
is good…

2. Planning your TV Crime Drama
5 mins on each section
Programme Title: Genre: TV Channel:
Genre Character 1 Character 2
ID Protagonist / Antagonist / Protagonist / Antagonist /
PD Sidekick Sidekick
CSP Character Traits
Character Traits
Costume
Costume
What is the Setting? What are the key locations? What genre conventions have
(specific) you used?
Country
Detective’s HQ Look back at your genre, what
Rural / Urban Detective’s Home conventions have you used and
The Lab why?
Era Crime scene (famous landmark)
Specific building

3. Who is the audience?
Swap with a partner and try to identify who their audience is.
3.Family mainstream (conventional, closed
endings) older Parents and children
4.Niche / Cult (unconventional, open endings)
media aware couples
5.Educated / Specialist (Adult audiences,
specialist language scientific and legal jargon)
specialised professionals
Partner Feedback
2 features that are effective about the TV Crime Drama
1 thing that you would improve

4. Self Assessment Success Criteria
How many keywords have you used in your idea? Rough Mark
Guide:
Genre: sub-genre, Individual Detective, Procedural Drama,
Crime Solving Professional, enigma codes, action codes, 50 – 45 A*
cliffhanger ending, open-endings, closed-endings
44 – 39 A
Characters: protagonist, antagonist, binary opposite, hero,
villain, anti-hero, quirky, rookie, sidekick, psychopath, detective, 38 – 30 B
costume, props, angry, brilliant, heroine,
29 – 20 C
Setting: rural, urban, audience, realism, escapism, crime,
deviance, Wide open spaces, hills/woods/valleys, close 19 – 11 D
communities, limited outsiders, wealthy, quiet, sleepy, isolation,
poverty, gritty Streets, alleyways, threat, noisy, crowded,
10 – 5 E
cosmopolitan, exciting, mise-en-scene
4–0F
EXTENTISION TASK – what words
did you use that you think should be
on the list?