CUFFS: REAL LIFE

 How far does the extract try to create a sense that it is portraying 'real life'?

• Police in the café, chatting as friends - relatable 
• 'birds eye view' makes us feel like we are watching real life as the locations are recognisable.
• wrong address, whilst commentating on the radio line
• sirens 
• camera in the back seat at head height, feels like you're in the car with them 

The extract tries to place the police officers in 'real life' by having them doing ordinary things. This is seen when the Donna, Lino, Jake and Ryan are all sat together is a café eating sandwiches for lunch, and making fun of each other and laughing. The reason this is real life is because it is a very normal thing that many people do each day. Another way of making it feel like 'real life' is during the car chase with Ryan and Jake following a truck with a stolen ATM, a 'birds eye view' camera angle is used. This angle makes us feel like we are watching the chase live, and some of the locations will be recognisable, Therefore making us feel like we are there. During the car chase, Jake (a police officer on his first day) was told to do the commentary of the directions and addresses that they are located/drive past. Jake then gives the wrong address, causing Donna and Lino to lay the stingers to pop car tyres in the wrong road, causing another car to get stung. Also, the sounds of sirens is a very common sound, that you always hear on the road.