TV Crime Drama – Title Sequence

What are the different

purposes of a title sequence?

Key Words:StoryboardIconographyAudience Appeal

The purpose of a title sequence:

1.2.3.

• Identify the features of a title sequence in Crime Drama• Understand the purpose of a title sequence• Analyse an exemplar storyboard • Storyboard a title sequence for your TV Crime Drama (Question 3 in the Exam)

C

B

A

TV Crime Drama – Title Sequence Textual AnalysisTV Crime Genre:

 Character:

 

Setting:

Sound: 

Mise-en-scene / Iconography:

 

Enigma: 

D

C

B

A

A*

What iconography can you spot?

How is the intro structured?

How are the characters and setting represented?

Storyboarding

• Question 3 in the Exam (22 mins)• AQA Example

AnnotationsShot No: 1 / 2 / 3 / 4 Shot type: ECU / CU / MS / LS / ELSMovement: track / tilt / panShot Length: secondsDialogue / Sound: music / sound effects

StoryboardingStimulus

Video Essay of the Wire title Sequence

Storyboard: FeedbackWhat was good…1.

2.

Even better if…

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TV Crime GenreAudience AppealCharacterSetting