16.3 OAK STREET

Set in Surry area of England. Ex Super Intendant Laura Chambers hires herself out as a bodyguard to keep busy and earn money during her retirement. After being a bodyguard to a wealthy 26-year-old James Canning for 3 years she discovers that he’s the head of a multinational trade of high quality ecstasy. Knowing that she’d go to prison for being involved in the business, she decide against turning him in and subsequently gets deeper in the drug trade. Shortly after her discovery she gets called back to the police force to help investigate the death of a man who had taken an overdose and. By using her knowledge of the police tactics she avoids arrest and carries on working in the force.

Ex Super Intendant – Laura Chambers – 53 – Was very good at her job in the police force, generally follows her gut but right about most things and very quick to make decisions and conclusions. No family as both parents recently passed away, lives quite a solitary life apart from when she’s with James who she begins to see as like a son.

Drug Lord – James Canning – 26 – Very smart, had a bad childhood so has been involved with drugs since a very early age. Dresses quite smart and, you wouldn’t expect him to be part of a drug trade from looking at him. He is respected by a lot of people he works with and has a lot of power in the trade, he feels very protective over Laura despite he being his bodyguard. Spends money wisely to avoid detection from police.

Target Audience: 18-40 year olds, of all genders. Probably fans of series’ such as Breaking Bad.

UNIT 16.2: Idea 2

*Title*

Main Characters:
Runaway/Male/16-20
Stepmother/Female/40-50

Theme: Death/Friendship

Main Story line: After years of mental and physical abuse, during a fight a boy murders his father and runs away from home before the body is discovered. Stepmother (who was also treated badly by the boys father) finds the body. She immediately knows that it was the boy and feeling immense sympathy and understanding towards him she also flees the scene in an attempt to find the boy and hide with him from police. The series will follow the the runaway as he tries to survive on the street getting into serious trouble and his step mum trying to do the same. Set in a run down part of a city where there is quite a bit of crime and not really a safe place to be living on the streets.

 

UNIT 16.2: Idea 1

*Working Title*

Main characters:
Ex-cop/Female/50-60
Drug Lord/Male/20-30

Themes: Drugs/

Basic Story: Retired superintendent becomes involved in a large scale drugs business to gain money for family. By using knowledge from the force to avoid getting caught and keep the business growing into a multinational trade of a new drug. After getting called back into the force to assist an investigation into the death of what she discovers to be her long lost brother who has taken the new drug. She is caught up in her own morals but unable to leave the drug industry behind. Probably set in a large city, Manchester or somewhere similar.

16.1: INITIAL RESEARCH - The man in the High Castle

Production process:

Wikipedia says that the filming for it started in October 2014 (just over a year ago) filming in Seattle (instead of San Francisco). These sites included the monorail, Paramount theatre, a newspaper office in a market area, and several buildings in the International District. Then in April 2015, they filmed in Vancouver, and during May and June 2015 they filmed in the University of British Columbia. Obviously they must have worked hard on the set dressing and costumes so that they fit with the time period and the feel of the country after the war.

IDEA- Based on the book by Phillip K. Dick

DEVELOPMENT- Created by Frank Spotnitz. The episodes were written by a variety of people including Rob Williams, Jace Richdale, Thomas Schnauz, Emma Frost, Walon Green, Evan Wright and the creator of the series Frank Spotnitz.

PRE-PRODUCTION- The series was filmed in Seattle, Washington, Vancouver and British Columbia. Directors of the series include Daniel Percival, Brad Anderson, Karyn Kusama, Nelson McCormick, Ken Olin, Michael Rymer, David Semel, Michael Slovis and Bryan Spicer. The casting for the series was done by Denise Chamian, Candise Elzinga and Patti Carns Kalles.

The cast include Alexa Davalos, Rupert Evans, Luke Kleintank, DJ Qualls, Joel de la Fuente, Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa and Rufus Sewell.

PRODUCTION- The cinematographers were Gonzalo Amat and James Hawkinson. The production companies incuded Amazon Studios, Scott Free Productions, Electric Shepard Productions, Headline Pictures, Big Light Productions, Picrow and Reunion Pictures.

POST PRODUCTION- The editors were Jon Dudkowski, Marta Evry, Julie Monroe, Sidney Wolinsky, Angela M. Catanzaro, Kathryn Himoff and Michael Kewley. The music for the series was created by Henry Jackman and Dominic Lewis.

DISTRUBUTION- The series was released online via Amazon Prime and therefore the distributor was Amazon.com 

16.1: INITIAL RESEARCH - American Horror Story (Murder House)

UNIT 31.1: Zora Murff

Zora J Murff was born 1987. He is an MFA student in Studio Art at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. Zora attended the university of Iowa where he studied Photography and holds a BS in Phycology from Iowa State University. 

Purpose/Genre: The main purpose of this series is to document the examinations of youth experience in the system and how the concepts of privacy and control may affect their future.

The following images are taken from his series 'Corrections' 

 

The image is of a small window on the door of a prison cell with someone on the other side. This persons face is not visible much like the other photos in this series. In terms of composition, this image shows the use of a frame within a frame and a rule of thirds going across the picture. The colours in this photo are very simple, only about 4 or 5 clear colours are here making it a very simple photo, this contributes to the narrative as for the life of someone who is in a correctional facilty, their life would be fairly basic living with not a lot going on. Murff has intentionally covered the face/identity of the person as this means they can represent anyone in the legal system and not just focus on one particular individual.