Crime Drama and Reccie

We have an idea! After discussing things on Facebook we decided to use Connor's idea of a basic crime drama with a few little twists, here's the synopsis:


The film is about a crime scene, the body of a local drug lord has been found.
The first on the scene and only ‘witness’ being 24 year old Brad who has a long line of drug
related crime spread across his record. An interrogation takes place and between Brad and
Police detective Steve White. Brad retells his story and takes the viewer with him. Did he do
it or is there a much more than meets the eye to this interrogation.

I think its a really nice idea and it gives us space to play with colour, long shots, POV and lighting changes. We are still talking it through a little and will be storyboarding and shot listing it soon. Today however we went to Grindleford for our reccie for the crime scene. Here are some of the images and a short analysis of them.

This first set of images are from the first part of the trek around Grindlford, fortunately George knows the area and had a good place in mind so I just got a few snaps for contrast on the way.

As you can see the majority of the land is muddy and littered with autumn leaves, in some areas it looks beautiful and in some it looks like a swamp, overall it isn't quite the right image. It could work, I could see our characters in this area however the trees are a little densely packed and the branches a little wild. One way this location may still end up in our film is through Brads run before he finds the body, this section could be used to exploit the different areas in the forest. The other location we found was much better, here is what it looks like:

Its a much nicer area for shooting in and we think we can get some really iconic images from it. We had the idea of silhouette so I played around a little with the brightness of the shot by altering the aperture, here are the reasults:

Storyboarding has to be done before we really define any shots but its looking good, the location is great and the story really lets us play around within it. Storyboarding should be fun and creative and we already have some great ideas such as using static framing to only show parts of the action, silhouettes and time lapses!