Spooks Opening SequenceMedia Representation:

How are people and places represented in this opening sequence.

Ways in which the opening scene appeals to a weekday mainstream audience is because the typical mainstream are those that live in the same area as the location of were it is set. The setting is set out to be quiet, Suburban Street which may be located in a small town in London. The first thing that we are made to see is an innocent blond hair girl playing along the road side with her skipping rope this helps represents the mainstream audience as they are the kind of people that may have a child at that age as the target age group would be 15-35 were are then taken away from the girl and into a house were we see a typical couple in the morning and getting ready to start their day. They are a young may be newlywed couple and are shown too been very much in love with one another. But as we often see things do not always stay so happy and rosy. This leaves us the audience wondering what will happen next.

From the begging we are able to see that is the BBC that is the institution behind the drama. As the BBC is a respectable company when it comes to making and producing Dramas there for the people that have been watching BBC dramas for a long time now would be expecting something good and worth their time and not disappointing.

The codes and conventions which are shown in the sequence are that it builds up tension and suspense. This is because the girl is firstly introduced, then the institution is introduced. There is no sound in the sequence of voices in the first few secongs. this is when suspense and tension is build up by the viewer of the sequence. However this is not something unusual, many sequences are shown like this to fulfil what they are there to do, this clip is there to build up suspense and make the view think and be eager to see what is going to happen in the clip next.

Ways in which people and place is represented is by the people shown at the beginning the young couple ways this is represented is by what people expect from a young couple which is that they are very much in love and that they are playful this is shown with in the first few seconds we see what we expect from them which is the happy playful couple young people are represented to be but then it gets all serious and as it is a drama we expect for there to be some sort of villain to tear them apart.