Life On Mars Analysis

• Large leather jackets, with flare collars and the general colour themes of the clothes gives it a seventies look.  The colours of the car also fits with this, and the shape is unlike modern cars, suggesting its an old type.
• The office is presented by the grey cabinets, and stacks of papers, as well as the men at their desk, suggesting it is a busy working office, and then its implied it is a police office rom the references to crime further on.
• The newspaper cuttings of women, again is not like what you would find nowadays.
• In the title credits, the main g is holding a police badge, so the mise en scene introducing that suggests he is a policeman.  Then there is a group of men holding the guns so this also suggests danger.
• There is also a policewoman, wearing old fashioned uniform, and her haircut is again quite old fashioned. So already there is an idea presented that the films going to be about crime, justice and danger.