250-word close-textual analyses

You need to write detailed 250-word close-textual analyses of six TV drama trailers in your chosen genre. For each trailer, focus on a different aspect of media language, and embed each one on your blog:

TV drama trailer 1: Narrative and genre
How is narrative and genre communicated quickly and clearly to the audience?

TV drama trailer 2: Mise-en-scene
What do you notice about the use of mise-en-scene to create meanings for the audience? Think CLAMPS.

TV drama trailer 3: Camerawork
Here you are looking for particular camera shots and movement. E.g. Are close-ups used to introduce key characters to the audience? How are establishing shots used?

TV drama trailer 4: Editing
Analyse pace, transitions, number of shots and juxtaposition e.g. eyeline matches. Does the pace speed up towards the end of the trailer? 

TV drama trailer 5: Sound
Analyse both diegetic and non-diegetic sound - music, dialogue, voiceover, SFX, background or foley sound etc.

TV drama trailer 6: Trailer conventions, graphics, text-on-screen etc.
Here you need to explore trailer conventions - what does this trailer have that you've spotted in all the trailers you have analysed so far? Look for things like text on screen, graphics, title, release date, social media links and more

 My TV drama is going to follow the genre of crime drama which can be clearly communicated at the start as it will begin with a cold opening whereby showing the villain about the assassinate the victim and quickly shifts to the title sequence therefore meaning the cold opening is showing what is about to happen in the future. The costume of individual characters will represent each other. To expand the hero, being the detective will be distinguished by wearing a 'Sherlock Holmes' look which is inspired by the crime TV drama Luther. Luther, the brilliant but emotionally impulsive detective, is a suit type of guy whereby the character in my TV drama will be backed up by a James Bond look to add a sense of bravery and fearlessness. Throughout the TV drama, there will be little motivated lighting meaning the TV drama is predominantly indoors whereby the darkness adds a sense of danger and fear towards the victim. You will hear the characters have little lines therefore emphasising the movement of individual characters which shows a sense of mystery in a crime TV drama. Many long shots during camera work will be shown to add that feel of the TV drama being shown in an angle of CCTV. Also some closeups showing the misery in the victims face and the evil look in the villains face. Towards the action of crime, it will be very fast paced to show the thoughts of the villain and how fast everything is happening and towards the censored death scene (as it is a pre water-shed TV series) it will be very slow to emphasis the pain and agony the victim is. The TV drama will consist of both diagetic and non-diagetic sound and parallel music will be playing in the background to show the seriousness but also contrapuntal sound for comedic values. 

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