River scene details and location shots

One of our most complicated scenes to film is a scene showing a news report of the discovery of a body in a river, this requires 3 cast members, a news reporter and two police officers who will be searching through the river for any other evidence. The props that will be required for this scene are a microphone (for the reporter to hold) and some police tape (to section off the area). In terms of costume, the news reporter will be wearing a white shirt, suit jacket and trousers, and the workmen will be wearing fluorescent jackets and trousers. This use of costume and props should carry the message across to the audience that it is a news report with or without any sound.

We have found the ideal location for shooting this footage in the suffolk village of Ixworth, the only problem with this location is that walking route passes through it and people use this route to walk their dogs quite frequently. There will almost certainly be someone walking through while we are filming so to prevent any inconveniences we will put a poster up on the entrance to the dog walk to let people know that filming is taking place and asking people to keep silent and ensure their animals are kept on a leash. We will also keep someone located 50-100 yards down the pathway to just give any who missed the sign a heads up, this will also give us the ability to respectfully hold people back for a minute if we need to when filming.
Here are a few pictures of the riverside, although it may be worth noting that these pictures where taken in winter and on the day of filming there may be leaves on the bushes however they will not cause any obstruction to the view of the camera or actors.

It's been too long...

Due to the pressure of the workload from exams, the three of us decided to postpone our resubmission and rather than entering it for the January exams we decided to enter in the May/June exam period so that this piece doesn't clash too much with our animation coursework

(see link for details - Animation project ).

However we are now continuing work on our thriller piece and should be posting with the progress we have made with location shots very soon!

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The story boards for the alternate beginning!

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Here are our story boards!

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Storyboards completed

Today we have completed the storyboards which should be posted soon.

When considering the two different ways we could have the girls death in the opening, me and Hannah decided to storyboard one variation of the opening each. Hannah concentrated on the hanging whereas I concentrated on the overdose scenes.

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One scene of our opening will require a reporter on the scene of the crime, since the body was found in the river in our narrative we set out to scout for the right riverbank setting. After deep thought the answer lied under our very noses.

In my hometown of Ixworth there is the perfect setting, pictured on the left is the bridge over the ixworth river on the public footpath route. I have found a picture on google images of one side of the bridge however there is one other angle we would like to look at before finalising any decisions on the setting for that one scene.

Alternative opening

We have been considering another opening to display the girls death. In this adaption we would show the girl hung by a rope suspended from the kitchen ceiling rather than having her on the floor of a bathroom. For this to be done we would show the articles on a kitchen table and the camera would pan up to show dangling legs. To do this we would have the actress perched on a chair on a counter. We would then go to a flashback then continue the shot from the waist up and she would be stood on the counter instead.
We will film both openings and consider both and use them in our evaluation.