Media Assignment:-Reading Television
Crime Series
Step one. Genre,Schedule,Audience
Both programme’s start at different times, The Bill starts before the watershed and is an hour long whereas ‘Waking the dead’ starts after the watershed and is also an hour long.
The Bill is aimed at younger audience that’s because The Bill is before the watershed.
Waking the dead is more of an adult rating due to it being after the watershed.
Step Two, The opening sequence
The opening sequence of Waking the dead has dark dull colours like dark red,orange,green and black, The red and orange are represented for blood in the background fluids are being flashed, Text floats around the screen and some of the text reflects in the water. Several objects are used to represent the programme. A magnefine glass moves slowly across the screen, A hand is turning a page or taking a cloth off a dead body most of the images are blurry. The colours used for both crime series are dull colours.The colours used for The Bill are are much darker compared to the colours for Waking the dead. The features used for The Bill suggest that it is a programme about Police officers and Crimes whereas the features for Waking the dead tell the audience that it is a programme about detectives and lots of investigations.