Planning on main task.

Firstly, in our group, we have looked at which genre in which we are planning to do, this is shown from making it as a thriller/drama. Our idea is to make a drama on the media uprising of the Steve Wright murders in Ipswich. It is not going to be a documentary but more of a film representation of it. 

We are going to be filming snapshots of gloomy, eerie areas of Norwich to bring a sense of vunrerbility to the the production and to the vunrerbility of the victims of these countless crimes. In our group, we are still looking at the way in which way of showing it, for example, we are still deciding on just getting photograhs of the snapshots or filming them but with slight movement. These photographs will be taken in gloomy, dull, maybe even during night time to show more of the representation of a dark place for it to be filmed. As we want to keep on a close representation on the Steve Wright murders, we are keeping away from famliar places in Norwich which we could use for the snapshots. The reason for this is becuase the actual murders were convicted in the town of Ipswich so we want to keep the familar places to a minimum.

spooky woods

Another piece of filming in which we are putting into our 2 minute production is a small representation of how the victims of Steve Wright, and actually to all woman who sell themselves for money and to the extremes in which they do for money and the problems in which they get involved in. The way in which we are going to do that is that we will be filming a young ladies legs with high heels on which running  down a dark alley or woods like in the state of fear and being afraid. Also the sense of panic into what it was like to be in that problem and the audience can feel and see what kind of panic they went through.  

finally, as this is only the first two minutes of opening credits, we are doing a sense of that the Steve Wright murders actually happened and to do that we are going to showing snapshots of 5/6 seconds of a brief piece of the news and the uproar of it. this will happen for maybe a bit between some of the snapshots to being the fact of how serious this became during the suffolk murders. we are doing the sence of doing a few clips from the news and use a few transitions of zooming in/out slowing and fading in and out onto the next piece of news. LINK: http://news.bbc.co.uk/player/nol/newsid_7250000/newsid_7258600/7258664.stm?bw=bb&mp=wm&news=1&ms3=6&ms_javascript=true&nol_storyid=7258664&bbcws=2 – sentence.

LINK: http://news.bbc.co.uk/player/nol/newsid_7250000/newsid_7257700/7257706.stm?bw=bb&mp=wm&news=1&nol_storyid=7257706&bbcws=1 – finding the evidence.

LINK: http://news.bbc.co.uk/player/nol/newsid_7250000/newsid_7257900/7257916.stm?bw=bb&mp=wm&news=1&nol_storyid=7257916&bbcws=1 – special ‘Look East’ report.

Evaluation of the Preliminary task.

On our pleliminary task, we had to look at a scene in which a character would walk in, with another character which was aready in the room. Dialouge is also used coming from both characters. In our project, are genre was a comedy spoof on police drama. This is shown from how serious in which the first 20 seconds are on the investigator (played by Jenni Dack) walking down the corridor into the interview room, this is also shown from how serious the first dialouge from the investigator. The first sign of this short film is the first glimpse of the accused (played by Whitney Mckernan) in which is from the contrast of what she has been accused of.

We had to look at, location, costume and props. Firstly, changes were made a lot depending on where the location was going to be. For example, we were going to film on the Sprowston High School site but becuase of problems with timing and getting the selected room at a good enough time was a problem. We ended up filming on the actual Sewell Park College site as it was easier and the particualar room in which we used was the best for what we wanted for this task.

On the costumes situation, we had to keep the intestigator as conservitive and smart, as well as it being dark and dull,  as we were trying to show the representation of a typical investigator. The smart clothing was kept on during the whole of the short film. The reason for the dark and dull clothing was becuase we wanted a large contrast as well as the ‘joke’ in the contrast by putting the accused in very colourful and contrasting colours to bring out the randomness. We decided on the accused to be foreign to make it funnier with the dialouge. For example, one piece of dialouge is when the investigator says ‘Don’t lie! We all know it’s true, we all know your the murderer!’ in which the accused doesn’t understand fully in which the investigator said and replies, ‘What about a hamburger?’. This the main humour in which the rest of the scene is leading onto.

Not a lot of props were needed during this task as it was just a simple police investigating room so nothing was really needed. However, a folder was needed just as a small gesture and to help the audience to see who are the character and to show more of a normal, realistic character.