Scoopit! collates all my crime drama links on the internet. it forms the basis of my research. Scoopit! is interactive, this makes suggestions about what other TV crime drama program's. Using Scoopit! I collect data on number of TV crime drama programs.

One of the most useful for the research more traditional crime drama is the BFI Screenonline site. i decided to look at how more traditional crime dramas function.

Research: Openings

I chose to research Moonrise Kingdom as one of my openings to study. The reason I chose Moonrise Kingdom is mostly for the editing work, cinematography, directing and lack of dialogue yet maximum effectiveness. The whole four minute opening tells the audience a lot about the main characters backstory, interests and life. It does this in a series of two shots, while having many characters and room changes. The opening focusses not on the main character of the twelve year old Suzy, but on her three brothers. In the very beginning the camera focusses on a painting of the local lighthouse. This first scene is foreshadowing for one of the final scenes in the movie. The camera then pans along the house to reveal the rest of the family.

The fact that none of the family are seen together accept the brothers is explaining the disconnect between the parents with each other and with their daughter. The mother is scene smoking and washing alone. Whereas in all the rooms the father is seen reading the newspaper. This showing the repetitive life their family is stuck in. Suzy is seen carrying around her binoculars, these are a key part of the opening and continue to be important as a symbol for Suzy’s identity throughout the film. They are described as her “super power”. Showing her love for the unrealistic and fantasy rather than reality, this is also shown by her book. He whole opening is shot in an uncomfortably warm overtone and colouring, this is to highlight the lack of warmth in Suzy’s life. And the way everyone around her is building up a fake warm home.

Throughout the opening there is no dialogue between any characters in the film. This is to show the lack of communication in her family but also to highlight the camera work and acting instead. There is instead a voice over of a boy explaining how a symphony’s structure can be pulled apart into sections. These sections represent how the lives of this family are separate and not sounding put together.