Analysing Hawaii-Five-O

1. The features of Hawaii-Five-O that suggest it is a TV crime drama are the lighting, music,sound effects, character types and settings.

2. The sub genres of the programme could be adventure, mystery and action.

3. Hawaii Five o is split into three different sections. At the beginning Jin is kidnapped and taken to prison, he meets people and starts talking to them. After a while the fire alarm goes off and everyone is looking for Jin, his name is said through the intercom and he is described by the police so other prisoners can try and spot him and work out who he is.  This suggests that is was a mysterious case as it is structured to encourage the audience to watch the program. At the beginning it is really quiet and calm with not much going on, it is at an equilibrium. In the middle of the episode there is a lot of disruption as they are trying there best to find Jin and the kidnapper, they tackle him to the ground in order to get out of him where Paul is but he doesn't say anything. They threaten him and find his phone. At the beginning of the episode Jin is kidnapped and was panicking of what was going on around him. Later on in the episode they shoot people to try and find him and know of his location. They eventually find him and take him to the hospital. This also links to Roland Barthes Action Codes as there was a lot of action happening in the episode for example body action, the way Jin's friend was using body language attracted the audience as they would want to continue watching the episodes to see why she was acting like that. There were a variety of enigma codes such as mysteries for example investigating the kidnapper. This allowed the audience to continue guessing what was going on further.