Research

Our preliminary research which we watched yesterday was extracts of opening television programmes to give us a flavour of what we would need to achieve at a high standard in our unit 1 coursework. The extracts from different media texts gave me some ideas about the opening credits which relate to the programme such as, in "Six Feet Under" the editors name moved down in unison with the liquid which doesn't make the writing always static. The majority images were associated with death for example, predator bird, dead flower and a grave yard. I noticed that the sound added to the death-like feeling, as the sound gave a short climax on a significant part of the opening credits. At 0:30 on the timescale, the wheel turns as text is being shown.



In "Dexter", the programme is conveying clues of what he does; him being a serial killer! There is a close up of ham which he is cutting and then puts into a pan where we hear diegetic noise of the food sizzling. We see that he is making breakfast but subconsciously we think he is cutting skin when we see the meat in a close up. He ties his shoelaces at 1:29 which makes you believe he is hanging someone.