1. Assignment #5: Knowing the
different types of TV genres
By Debbie Marques, Maria Younes
and Milka Erko

2. Police power
Human right
Justice
Violence
Themes/issues
Domestic Abuse
Death
Safety
Security system

3. Camera shots Mise-en-scene
• Mid shot •Body language of old lady
•Un-tidy burgled room
•Police officer clothes
•The door breaker
•Wide shot •The lighting in the room which is very dim-
uncomfortable
•Close up shot
•
Editing Sound
Ellipses- From saying they are going to get into the van, to
straight away them arriving
Diagetic sound: Throughout the episode when
they are talking
Non Diagetic: At the beginning when the
episode is being introduced
•Transitions-overlapping
• Blurring out
•Scenes which flow with different kinds of cuts

4. Ideologies/streotypes
People Place Things that happen
Chief officers Alleyway murder
Police force Police office kidnapping
Forensic scientists Motorway Burglaries
Doctors Isolated house Drug use
victims Normal house Abuse
Criminals Suicide

5. Characters
The kind of characters that are in crime and policing soaps are:
• Ruthless
• Hoodlums
• Caring
• troubles
• Devoted to work
• Polite
• Loving
• dominant
• Over controlling
• Inferior
They do challenge stereotypes, as there is female chief officers and
more dominant parts played as females, this challenges the
stereotypes, as they are normally men that are the boss of the
force and in more control.

6. Places/Setting
The different places these take places are:
• Night clubs
• Isolated areas
• Big houses
• Buses
• Parks
• Normal flats/houses
• Close down Factories
• Forests
• Police office
• Laboratory
The majority of this places are in interior places, as they wouldn’t
want to be seen doing the wrong thing in public.

7. Conventions
Crimes:
Burglaries
Murders
Drug-related crimes
• We would always expect some sort of action going on and the crime being solved
at the end
• Also, we would expect one of the victims involved being badly hurt and end up in
hospital
• We would see sacrifices being made by the police in order to solve a crime
• There would be issues in the private life of the officers
• One of the police officers getting hurt

8. Some examples of shows in this genre
The bill: This is a British CSI New York American series:
Hamburg cell is a British
series. • Here, the men are more series:
• In this the girls are more dominant in situations • This is focused on
dominant • It focuses more on the more of the reality
crimes and more into
• It focuses more on the of what happened in
forensic science and the
lives of the police officers reality of what goes on 9/11 with pure
and the reality which goes when they are figuring evidence and how
on when they are not out who did the crime.
fighting crimes.
the terrorists formed
“Hamburg cell”.

9. The Bill episode 441
Beginning of episode Female head officer Facial expression of
Closeup of 1 of the police
when drug dealer gets another police officer
demanding other officers to show reaction
introduced to audience to the demanding to show her reaction
police officers
Long shot of white Mid shot of all Police officers leaving Police officer
van to show police officers the van after the breaking door to
where police inside van ready to demand of the head get into the
officer. house.
officers are. get to action