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24 Hours in Police Custody (Industry (Marketing ('From the makers of…
24 Hours in Police Custody
Narrative
Structure
Chronological/ linear - events unfold chronologically within a 24 hour time frame
Narrator
Equilibrium (Todorov)
Conventions
Narrator
Interviews
Formulaic
Episodic
Real time footage
Mini-interviews
No sub-plots
Codes
Action (Barthes)
When the police are interviewing the men
When the police go into the mens house
Enigma (Barthes)
Will they find suffiecient evidence within 24 hours
Genre
Conventions
Interviews
Diegetic sound
Lack of editing
Lack of manipulation
Real time footage
Tracking shots
Close-ups
Iconography
Police station
Police uniform
Cells
Police equipment
Interview rooms
Prison uniform
Police cars
Police admin
What genre?
Documentary film
Documentary modes
Poetic, expository,
observational
, interactive, reflexive and performative
'fly-on-the-wall' documentary
Basic Information
First broadcast Thursday 19th May 2016, C4
2.09 million viewers
Characters
Simon Brimble
Andrew Sinclair
Gary Hales
Representations
Class
Crime is a working class phenomenon
Clear social class inequalitites
Gender
Crime is mainly a male phenonmenon
Female police officers
Place
Council estates and the foundations for crime
Poverty, drug riddled, unemployment and violent
Unromanticised view
Industry
Regulation
Ofcom
Marketing
'From the makers of 24 Hours in A & E'
BBC adverts
Trailers
Blogs
Social media
Global implications
Social media
Production
Channel 4
Bedfordshire police allowed more than 80 cameras to follow their work for this 'landmark documentary'
Rigged camera placed 24/7 over a 6 week period
Captured enough footage for 20 eipisodes
The Garden Production
Distriubtion
5 series-run
DVD
DIgital
Amazon, 4od
Publishing
Audience
Targeting
Demographic audience profile (A - E)
Four C's (Young and Rubicam)
'Our audience is everyone. Our audience is everywhere' - ITV
Positioning
Active
Two-Step model (Katz and Lazarsfeld)
Received message through 'opinion leaders'
Passive
Hypodermic Needle Model
Appeal
Uses and Gratifications theory (Blumler & Katz)
Diversion
Surveillance
Personal relationships
Identity
How does it appeal?
Marxist -'dog eat dog' world
Tense
Complies with documentary conventions
Insight into CJS
Responses
Theoretical
Reception Theory (Stuart Hall)
Preffered
Negotiated
Oppositional
Literal
Online reviews
Twitter responses '#24hoursinpolicecustody'
Received praise from fellow police officers
Newspaper reviews
Right wing newspaper - over emphasises the effectiveness of the police
Alisa Pomeroy, Channel 4’s Commissioning Editor for Documentaries, said: "With its dramatic investigations and unprecedented access to police interview rooms, 24 Hours in Police Custody gave us real-life police drama that captured the public’s attention. These new films tell the story of some of the most pressing issues affecting Britain today and we’re thrilled to be bringing this important series back."