The Importance Feature of Crime Scene Investigation
One of the most important and most featured settings of CSI: Crime
Scene Investigation is the headquarters for the CSI team and the labs.
In this setting many iconographic features of the police genre
subcategory can be found. Being that of a high tech genre, lab
equipment and computers. Other settings include on location of the
murder, the interview room, the team supervisor’s (Gil Grissom) office
and the morgue. In the exterior scenes police cars, uniformed
officers, scene of crime tape, flashing blue lights and guns are seen.
Depending on the context of each episode chase scenes may occur also
action sequences including gun fire.
Unlike many other crime shows, CSI: Crime Scene Investigation has
several stock characters. The first of these is the night shift team
supervisor for the Las Vegas CSI unit (Gil Grissom), then there is the
blood spatter analyst who was second-in-command for the night shift
for four seasons (Catherine Willows). An easygoing and friendly former
college baseball player (Nick Stokes) is also a stock character
alongside a Las Vegas native and audio/visual analyst (Warrick Brown).
Also alongside these is the head county coroner (Dr Albert Robbins)
and a young lab technician who idolizes Grissom (Greg Sanders).
Each episode of CSI: Crime Scene Investigation is self contained in
the sense that new crimes are committed (enigma) and we follow the
teams tasks of uncovering the victim and its culprit. Many themes are
found throughout the episodes, the relationships between the team
workers and also each of their flaws and how it affects their work. In
this sense CSI: Crime Scene Investigation is something of a hybrid
form with elements of both the self contained episodic series and the
extended plotlines of the serial.
With the use of Warrick on the team it shows clear equality of the
races. Also having Catherine as one of the team leaders its shows that
women are also treated as equals. This is something that never used to
be found in a crime series.