Narration

The last portion of our scene involves a portion of Narration, I will be recording that later on with my Blue Snowball Microphone and Audacity, I will then transfer the files to a USB Stick and then we will be able to add it to the proposed scene of time lapse.

Edit Starts Today

Today we are going to start the edit for the footage we have recorded, the order we are going to do this in will be:

1) Assemble the First Scene
2)Add in the Ambient noise
3) Record the Narration for the end of the First Scene
3)Create the Credits and attach them to the Assembled scene
4) Add the Music for the credits
5) Check continuity

Lights, Camera, Action

We have finished our first full shoot and we now have the footage we need, what follows from now on will predominantly be editing and the production of the opening credits.

In terms of how the shoot went we did have a large degree of success but that in turn was not without a fair amount of error.

On multiple occasions the key issue was with the dialogue, certain lines kept getting confused, most notably was that of the line "One of the things you learn from this job is the wonders of perception." to which I confused with the line "Well, Perception is a Wonderment" or something along those lines"

On a couple of Occasions we were also plagued by how much we could move around the scene, yet we solved this problem by moving furniture before filming, keeping in mind the continuity.

 

In terms of props we managed to successfully make the most of what we got and I am fairly pleased with the results. I will post a video explaining what we did for the scene later after it has been processed on Vimeo.com and is ready to be embedded.

The Shots that we took for the timelapse are in my opinion rather interesting, to better illustrate this I placed a couple of candles in the room, As time goes on in the lapse, some of the candles go out, we have also removed items from each one to emphasise the investigation

Amy has also taken a couple of crime scene photos to use in the credits. I will be taking some additional ones to lengthen the credits if need be.

Overall I think that the shoot was something of a success and we have plenty of footage to work with.

All Props Arrived

All of the props have arrived for the shoot as hoped these include:

-Blood Capsules
-Crime Scene Tape
-Standard Police tape
- Overalls
- Face Masks
- Foot Covers
- Gloves
- Additional Camera Stand (Steady Cam)
- Fixed Lighting Attachment for the Camera Stand

Complications with the Music request and the Location for the Crime Scene

As it turns out the music that we wanted to use for our piece was protected by copyright as expected but after talking to Anastasia Pegi the copyright advisor for the band, we realised that they were not willing to compromise on the free use of the music and we would also be subject to a viral silence, the video could be posted online or else it would breach a proposed contract. In response to this we have decided to use one of the many cover versions that can be found online, while many are not subject to copyright we will still be obliged to ask for their permission out of moral practice. For the crime scene, our proposed industrial estate idea was for nought as we have recieved no response back on the availability of any units, those who did write back unfortunately didnt have any free spaces for filming, to combat this we have decided to shoot the film at my home, while this sounds like a last ditch effort it is actually a calculated move, my home is especially wide and can support the proposed shooting style I am looking for. I have already recieved permission to film and have confirmed the availability of the cast, expect footage confirmation by sunday evening.

Storyboard

Below I have Scanned and added in my storyboards, For convenience I will explain what is happening in each frame.

1. The first thing that we see in our film is of course one of our main characters opening the door with a low level shot of his feet exiting a vehicle. Originally we wanted to go with an establishing shot of the scene, but we assessed that there wouldn't be enough space in the scene to warrant a proper clean shot.

2. This is the point where the shot focus would change to a side shot, notice the key pointers to indicate what the camera shouldn't focus on. In this case Alex's face should not be visible to the audience until later on during the meetup with his superior.

3. From here we can see Alex closing the car, then allowing the camera to pan beside him and as he walks forward, pan up  to show him walking into the crime scene

4. At this point we can see Alex Cross entering the crime scene, notable point include that this is an over the shoulder shot that shows Alex walk under the crime scene tape while the camera stays behind.

5. This shot is a continuation of the previous one where it shows Cross walking towards John Walker, currently conversing with a Crime Scene Specialist.

6. This shot depicts the change of view from person to person once the conversation begins.

7. This is depicting the shot reverse shot between the characters as they walk between what is most likely going to be a large table.

8. This is the reveal of the body in the scene but it doesn't hold this shot for too long before it moves to a low angle shot.

9. The Arrow indicates the angle that the camera is at and what the audience is going to be seeing.
10. We simply see John walker Reading the Note
11. The note is placed in an Evidence Bag.

First Script

SCRIPT:

Opening Scene: *Main Character Exits the car and walks into the building housing the crime scene*

(Main Character walks proposed route through crime scene until he locates the man he is looking for, mid conversation with another officer.)

 J. Walker: … I want you to see if you can get any video footage from the area, either inside or around the building.

Police Officer 1: Yes sir.

(J. Walker turns around and notices Alex, They begin conversation)

J. Walker: *Brief Pause* you must be Cross.

Alex Cross: You would be too sir. Just call me Alex (The detectives shake one another’s hand)

J. Walker: Alright, I’m Jack by the way. Well, this isn’t the nicest case to start with I’m afraid; at least that’s what I’ve been told. (The detectives begin walking through the scene) This all started with an anonymous call this morning, the call was made from a phone box

(The detectives come across a set of windows along the buildings frame, none of which are broken, none of the doors are broken and everything is clean and tidy)

Alex Cross: Hmm, No broken windows, no mess, awfully clean.

J. Walker: Yeah, Strange. The method of murder seems more radical than the method of entry. You don’t seem much like a rookie to me.

Alex Cross: I think one thing you learn from this job is the wonders of perception.

J. Walker: Quite so

(The two detectives begin to walk over to the body)

Alex Cross: Damn, they don’t tell you about the smell.

J. Walker: Don’t worry it grows on you. Hmm, It should have been a clean kill but this is peculiar, the body has been cleaned but the method of murder is so brutal. Almost a conflicted operation.

Alex Cross: Wait, what’s that.

(Detective Cross Pulls a piece of paper out of the victims hand and hands it to Walker, He begins reading the note)

Alex Cross: Well, what is it.

J. Walker: I have no idea, its jumbled, letters and numbers. Symbols too but it doesn’t look like any code I’ve seen before.

(J. Walker puts the note into an evidence bag and hands it to a CSI Member)

J. Walker: This is looking like it’s gonna be a long one.

(The scene continues with a time lapse of the crime scene being investigated) Narration talks over the scene.

Alex Cross Narration: And that’s how it started, putting a young detective on that case was a big mistake, it just made no sense. Nothing this killer ever did made sense. This case was just the first of many, every week we’d just see more and more bloodshed, with a new note each time, each time just a mess of letters and numbers. We interviewed suspects left and right but none of them fit. This case just didn’t work with police guidelines and so. We weren’t going to either.

(Scene transitions into Opening Credits)