Life on Mars by Ewan Waters https://padlet.com/ejwaters19/nvjl3vxanmcz Series 1 Episode 1 en-us 2017-10-09 14:04:02 UTC 2017-11-16 11:29:34 UTC hello@padlet.com Genre Conventions ejwaters19 https://padlet.com/ejwaters19/nvjl3vxanmcz/wish/195233217 2017-10-09 14:04:57 UTC https://padlet.com/ejwaters19/nvjl3vxanmcz/wish/195233217 http://estream.colchsfc.ac.uk/View.aspx?id=9865~4C~FepKz5xu ejwaters19 https://padlet.com/ejwaters19/nvjl3vxanmcz/wish/195236433 2017-10-09 14:12:44 UTC https://padlet.com/ejwaters19/nvjl3vxanmcz/wish/195236433 Setting ejwaters19 https://padlet.com/ejwaters19/nvjl3vxanmcz/wish/195237698 Typically British – tower blocks, terraced houses, bin bags, working-class, northern environment.]]> 2017-10-09 14:15:29 UTC https://padlet.com/ejwaters19/nvjl3vxanmcz/wish/195237698 Generic codes ejwaters19 https://padlet.com/ejwaters19/nvjl3vxanmcz/wish/195238058 As car pulls up – diegetic squealing of brakes, police vehicles and uniformed police.
•Generic codes as car pulls up – diegetic squealing of brakes, police vehicles and uniformed police
•Tyler framed dominantly on right, suited with a tie – precise and by the book
•Reads rights (generic convention) perfectly – this is a man who does things by the book.
]]> 2017-10-09 14:16:20 UTC https://padlet.com/ejwaters19/nvjl3vxanmcz/wish/195238058 Iconography ejwaters19 https://padlet.com/ejwaters19/nvjl3vxanmcz/wish/195240477 -Police cars
-Police outfits
-police station
-weapons
-taser ]]> 2017-10-09 14:21:48 UTC https://padlet.com/ejwaters19/nvjl3vxanmcz/wish/195240477 ejwaters19 https://padlet.com/ejwaters19/nvjl3vxanmcz/wish/195242171
]]> 2017-10-09 14:25:12 UTC https://padlet.com/ejwaters19/nvjl3vxanmcz/wish/195242171 ejwaters19 https://padlet.com/ejwaters19/nvjl3vxanmcz/wish/195245866 Raid on suspects house followed by chase. Closed frames within the house connote entrapment – used throughout the series]]> 2017-10-09 14:32:46 UTC https://padlet.com/ejwaters19/nvjl3vxanmcz/wish/195245866 The office scene ejwaters19 https://padlet.com/ejwaters19/nvjl3vxanmcz/wish/195247072 •Sam focuses on computer monitor, forensic evidence, fibres etc..
•Establishes his relationship Maya – personal/professional binary opposition
•Iconography of water cooler and phone
•Satchmore Rd creates a cause/effect link with 1973
•Bleak, gritty setting of the crime scene and empty swing signifies the end of innocence. Shirt stained with blood connotes danger and emphasises importance.
]]> 2017-10-09 14:34:38 UTC https://padlet.com/ejwaters19/nvjl3vxanmcz/wish/195247072 The accident ejwaters19 https://padlet.com/ejwaters19/nvjl3vxanmcz/wish/195248099 •The surreal elements of the narrative and hints at Tyler’s back story
•Enigma codes
•The Todorovian disruption point within the narrative (initially started by Maya’s abduction)
•Intertextual elements – the beginning of our awareness that this is a post-modern text
•Sam Tyler’s displacement into another world and his vulnerability
•Difference within the genre (Neale)
]]> 2017-10-09 14:36:56 UTC https://padlet.com/ejwaters19/nvjl3vxanmcz/wish/195248099 Title/opening sequence ejwaters19 https://padlet.com/ejwaters19/nvjl3vxanmcz/wish/195251639 •Credits – black and white, sans-series font – connotations of POLICE font
•Credits intercut with wheels spinning – action, intertextual reference to Hitchcock’s Vertigo.
•70’s action music
•Desaturated colour with colour palette of greys and blues – masculine and gritty
]]> 2017-10-09 14:43:14 UTC https://padlet.com/ejwaters19/nvjl3vxanmcz/wish/195251639 Action sequences ejwaters19 https://padlet.com/ejwaters19/nvjl3vxanmcz/wish/195252489 Raid on suspects house followed by chase. Closed frames within the house connote entrapment – used throughout the series.]]> 2017-10-09 14:44:53 UTC https://padlet.com/ejwaters19/nvjl3vxanmcz/wish/195252489 first scene ejwaters19 https://padlet.com/ejwaters19/nvjl3vxanmcz/wish/195255384 •The contemporary setting (2006)
•Sam Tyler’s role in the narrative and his personality and attitudes 
•Genre – classic crime/cop drama conventions
•The narrative strand of Colin Rames and the case which will parallel in 1973
•Contemporary ideologies
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