statement of aims

In my work my chosen brief is to create a cross media production for a hypothetical new television show in the crime genre. I chose to do a show focused on channel 4 rather than Netflix to create a more traditionally English less American format/aesthetic for my show.

I’m choosing to create a cold open of the crime to be investigated occurring. This will entail an unnamed victim hacking a computer in a shady company building. Them leaving an being spotted by a man who makes chase, implied gang member. The victim is chased under a bridge and tries to escape by jumping a fence. They are grabbed from being by their hoodie and thrown onto the ground into bins (sending them flying). The gang member stands over the victim (victim’s point of view camera angle) he brings his weapon down on them (chain, bat or machete).

The shot order will follow mostly how I have described in my synopsis of the plot.

#1: opening close up shotof the hacker angled from the back left (related to the computer screen).

#2: inversely angled mid-shotaimed at the door of the dark room with hallway light pouring in, the technician/groundskeeper passes by the door cutting off the light.

#3: this catches the hacker’s eye who turns around to look. Extreme close up shoton face, specifically eyes.

#4: mid-close shotof the hacker’s hand and arm pulling out a USB drive.

#5: Long shotfrom the end of the hallway of the hacker coming out of the room and moving towards the camera.

#6: mid shotof the groundskeeper seeing the hacker and shouting for him to stop.

#7: long shot of running thorough a hallway cut to a semi aerial long shot (camera on elevated ground) of running out of a door.

#8: mid-close shot speed walking through a (maybe forested? Maybe alley way?) area.

#9: over the shoulder shot from behind characters head, hacker spotted by second major character the attacker.

#10: Close up shot on hacker, long shot on attacker showing the following.

#11: Extreme close up on hacker’s eyes flicking back, to make the audience aware that he knows he is being followed.

#12: Mid shot from behind hacker (attackers’ perspective) coming out of the dark area and bursting into a sprint.

 #13: Long shot from opposite side of road of attacker making chase under a train bridge and turning the corner.

#14: Close up quick shot of a metal fence and a hand grabbing it.

#15: Cut to a close up shot of the hacker half way up the fence being grabbed from behind. (the camera only catching the hands.)

#16: close-mid shot of the hacker character being thrown into a corner of rubbish bins; the bins get knocked and rubbish is violently sent flying.

#17: Up shot (from the hacker’s perspective) of the attacker, he removes his ski mask, crouches over the hacker, says his line, stands and swings his club/bat down fast.

#18: Cut to black screen, title fade in.

The costumes I intend to use for the characters is blue or black overalls for the man passing by the room the victim is in. The victim in grey straight jeans/chinos, short sleeved white shirt with a loosened tie underneath an old black hoodie, possible ski mask? The gang member wearing a black tracksuit with a ski mask and hood up.

I plan to make the DVD cover minimalistic but plot relevant. The train bridge taped off in police crime scene tape showing the location of the crime and one of the main settings without spoiling any motivation or major plot points. The back being two characters on either side of a description on the left the character of a police detective (the hypothetical show’s main character, who doesn’t appear in the video) and on the right side the attacker from the video on a plane of black. Police tape at the bottom in a cross shape. The inside of the DVD case if possible being the USB lying in a patch of grass behind a chain-link fence.