Drama Analysis

The Killing analysis

Season 3 Episode 8

Characters analysis

A few scenes into the episode that we watched the police officers are asking questions that they want answered, so they are asking rhetorical questions. With these questions they are building a story, and it also helps build a picture to what might have happened, as we actually haven’t seen what has happened on scene.

With the victims in this episode they provide the evidence, which then leads to conclusions and the resolving of issues.

Narrative analysis

With many other TV shows, it has plot points. All episodes have a start, middle and end to them making them linear.

The first plot point in this episode was the main realisation point when the lady police officer - Sarah Linden, found the burning cigarette when they had gone to look for the perpetrator in a storage locker, as she had found that that this is where he was staying. He then found that that she was looking for him and started to attack her.

The second plot point was when another character said that the man who they were questioning was in the place when a certain incident happened.

The last plot point in this episode was when Stephan turned up at the house of the other police officer and punched him in the face, claiming that he knew about information and evidence that they had found.

All episodes were opened ended as the story carried on throughout multiple episodes until they came to a conclusion to the issues.

Technical analysis

In this TV show there are lots of technical aspects to create tension and an atmosphere in the scenes.

There is lots of dark, dingy low key lighting throughout the episode, this is to create a realistic expectation of real life and also because the stories that they are dealing with are very dark.

There is also a lot of diegetic sound in the episode to create tension; just with the background music there is a lot of tension created.

When police officer Sarah Linden is attacked there is lots of hand held close up shots, to show the severity of the situation that is going on. There is close ups on here face and his hands going in when they punch her.

The lack of shot reverse shots in this show is also an added factor to the tension for the audience, its almost like the camera is in a staring competition with the character on screen, also waiting for them to crack under the pressure of having the camera or having the audiences always focussed on them.