PREP Look back at the bullet point questions and write down your own responses on your blog.
- Do you agree with the view that the programme offers a 'pro-police perspective'? What do you understand by that? What evidence is there of that so far?
I believe that in Cuffs police are seen as good because in the scene were Ryan, Jake, Donna and Lino are all having lunch they act normal and are chatting while on their break, but then Donna asks what happened to Jake today and he replied, "I've been bled on, spat on and felt up". When we hear what he has to go through as a police offer we start to have empathy for him and other police offers and feel sorry for them and how they are treated when they are just trying to do the right thing. Also we feel nervous when Ryan is being backed into a corner and being threatened by a criminal called 'Benson'. Because we get to see an insight to what a police officer has to face daily. We discussed police procedural genre conventions and compared those of Endeavour with Cuffs.
We identified several mise-en-scene codes such as clothing codes, locations, uniforms, weapons, ranks. There was more evidence of violent crime, whereas Cuffs is pre-watershed and has to be family-friendly.
We noticed differences: Cuffs is set in the 2020s so there are representations of different ethnicities, of gay people, of women.
here are some photos we took:
we are experimenting with lighting and the way they took opening scenes in the old days. we used the lighting to create a shadow and we used the props to create the silhouette of a detective with a gun to his head.
We then watched the opening title sequence to Strike. This TV programme is about a disillusioned private detective (rather than a police force). The colours are low-key and dirty. The title sequence uses strong contrast lighting - chiaroscuro. We then experimented with setting up photos to achieve a similar effect
Props included a fedora, cape, mackintosh and guns.
