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For my sequence I decided to make a typical crime drama for ITV which targeted young adults. The unique selling point to my piece was about how the audience is positioned with the serial killer and how you see her committing the crimes. Combined with this the audience doesn’t detest her even though she is the ‘villain’, instead they feel empathy for her, understanding her motives to kill. I aimed to do this by creating a backstory behind the character following the idea that her mum, who had mental issues, was struggling to cope with these issues which resulted in her death. After her death the main character: Tanya, finds it difficult to process what has happened and is in denial about what ‘really’ happened – the audience doesn’t find out what did happen, however everyone around Tanya (the audience’s point of view) tell Tanya that she’s the crazy one for misunderstanding. Tanya thinks everyone else is in the wrong as they drove her mother to her death, whereas they all tell Tanya t...

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Updated Aims and Intentions (but its too long!)

Aims and Int e ntions    I will use media language to create a brand for my show which  t arget s   18-35 year old  ‘millennial’ audiences, and will reflect both the crime drama genre as well as creating my own unique identifying feature.  The sequence will  use both high-key ( e.g.  therapy scene) and low-key lighting ( e.g.  outdoors) which will contrast against each other. As well as this it will provide a typical setting of an established city and the alleyways that lay within them,  similar to  how Sherlock does with London. With the editing the show will consist of quickly cuts to build up tension when action is taking  place, point of views shots to see the perspectives of the characters and establishing shots to set the scene.  For  the print-text I will use colours such as blacks, whites and red which are common to the crime drama genre as well as horror . The colour red also being significant in b...