Tuesday 25 November 2008

Silent Witness Clip Analysis

I will be analyzing briefly a clip from the popular drama series “Silent Witness” (http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b00dzz2b/Silent_Witness_Series_12_Terror_Part_1/) looking into and explaining the action codes and the equilibrium, disequilibrium, and the new equilibrium and then using examples to back this up.

Equilibrium:
In the start of the clip it shows and constantly switches between two different scenes one being a Muslim girl who is ready to pray the other being a police force that are getting ready for a raid, I could tell this as guns and body armor are used as action codes so this would contrast each other as a positive religious action is compared with a negative violent police raid but are both preparing for a big moment and was shown to build up tension and this could mean in a broader sense introducing both sides of the story and then continuing to link them while the episode continues, both of these action codes together paints a picture in the viewers heads and picks out a topic of terrorism, as Islam and heavily armed police typically symbolize the word.

Disequilibrium:
As the clip goes on so do the police force approach towards they’re big moment, the women bows (a part of the Islamic prayer) and the police bust in one moment this would be a “disturbing the peace” type of moment where the trouble begins and the story starts to make sense as both stories start to join and a terrorist is pointed out and arrested and then his investigation begins

New equilibrium
The terrorist is proven not guilty and the police let him go this would be a moment where the new equilibrium is introduced.

HEROES TRAILER

In the following paragraphs I will analyse the opening sequence to a trailer for Heroes T.V series using MIGRAIN ANALYSIS.
Media: In the opening seconds the short clip hasn’t got a formal introduction but a quick view into how the series is as is shows a young American teenage male holding a camera recording a very weird footage of a girl jumping off a bridge this firstly would indicate that this T.V series is a science fiction programme as the use of unreal events are occurring just in within the first seconds of the clip because the girl just gets up from the floor with most of her upper body dislocated, she then puts them in place and just walks away all of this is recorded in a low quality camera view to an effect of reality and unprofessional teenage recording.
Straight after this the clips just shows random mini clips of different people around the world and this would indicate that this is a multi-stranded programme with many characters which do not have much association, but they all seem to be talking about a solar eclipse (a rare sighting of the sun being blocked by moon giving a dim the world a dim light during the day) and would also give an impression that the characters of this programme start off distant but would eventually meet because of an important things causing it such as an “Solar Eclipse” , natural lighting is used to show all this would also apply reality.
Institute: popular television broadcasting channel called NBC are the maker and producers of this particular TV series.
Genre: this TV series is a science fiction action.