My Pitch: A small, quiet town in liverpool which 25 years ago which lost 20 young people at the hands of a serial killer. A team of retired officers along side a DCI and forensics reinvestigate. When the murders begin to happen again, the same people and the same way, the team are troubled is the killer back at large or is this a copy cat killer?!
This programme will be called 'Down Apart'. It is based in a small fictional village in liverpool- Brussellette but is actually filmed in Rain-hill. It will be aired on Mondays for 1 hour at 2100 due to the violent content and sexual references included, it will be a production of BBC, they will have this for a trial period of 8 weeks during the summer months and if it is to be successful it will rotate round with Prisoners Wives and Whitechapel each at a period of 4 weeks as they all have the same content which can only be shown after the watershed and is inappropriate for young children to view. If this programme was any longer or shorter than 1 hour people wont watch as they wont wait to see then end and if it was any longer or shorter the whole of the tv scheduling for this time of day will be all messed up.
The target audience will be aged 16 to 30. This is because younger people have school the next day and need more sleep to a young person in college and they often start later on in the day. Older people wont watch it when it will be aired as many of them have young children and get tired due to looking after children. This programme may be watched by younger or older people at a later date on repeat on weekends or when they have free time. The target audiance will be drawn into the show by the escapism
of real life things going on in there lives, they will be able to watch this show without thinking of all the issues in there lives. This show will be personal relationships and personal identity.
In my crime drama I will have: Villains, criminals, against the side of justice (antagonist), police officer, hero, on the side of justice (protagonist), victim, suspect, inspectors, detectives, sergeants, medical team, forensics and family and friends of the victims, suspects and police officers. The iconography in my TV crime drama will be, police cars, weapons, graveyards, police cells, police vans and interrogation or questioning room. My characters will be wearing clothes that will be appropriate for there role in the TV crime drama. The police officers who are involved in catching the criminal will be in very formal clothes, the men will be wearing suits and ties were the women will be wearing longs trousers, blouse and a blazer. The forensic scientists will be wearing those blue coats and a cap when investigating evidence and when they are not the will be wearing formal casualty clothes. The criminals will be wearing scruffy casual clothes that are very tatty, they will look like they don't really care about what they look like and there appearance. The families of the criminals and police officers if and when they will be seen they will be wearing formal casualty clothes depending on when they are seen, what they are doing and how old they are and what gender they are.
