First impressions…Opening Credits The Wire and

A Touch of Frost

• http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J1S69staui8• http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CDffAEg2jsw&feature=related

• Question: Opening credits / themes – What functions do they have?

• Answer: Establishing setting / mood / subgenre / themes and ideologies / stars

The Wire

• http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zmIvu1yg3bU&feature=player_embedded

• Series 1 episode 1

• What do we learn from the opening scene?

The Wire

• What representations of the ‘law’ are constructed?

• How are they constructed?

A Touch of Frost

• http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2hraDXLFtxA&feature=player_embedded

• Series Finale

• What do we learn from the opening scene?

How do the representations contrast?