Rebecca Barrett - TV Production blog

Title:                             Genre: Drama Character 1: Lawyer Character 2: Criminal Location: Worn down room, similar to a prison cell but slightly better looking Main story idea: After being convicted of a murder, a criminal and her lawyer rehearse her speech for court. Throughout her speech she seems calm and relaxed despite admitting to murdering her ex best friend, but will that innocent façade follow through to the jury, or will her cruel mind appear through the cracks? 

'The Bodyguard' For the first part of the homework, I watched the first episode of 'The Bodyguard'. This episode, I paid attention to the camera angles and sound as to me, these are the two of the most key elements in a tv series. I've only done the first few minutes of the episode just to give a general  Sound: Right away as the episode begins you hear sounds that almost sound like gunfire, sending to the audience that this is most likely another war based tv series. However, as the opening title fades, we are shown our main character waking up on a modern-day train and watching another train goes past. This could show to the audience that the man has some kind of trauma due to his sounds being confused. The sound during the second 'camera' section is quite tense, letting the audience know that this man who walked away from the bin could be dangerous Camera: A few moments (within the same scene), the camera slowly pans round to the man

My first idea for my short film was to do a short film on the alarming rate of suicide within the LGBT community, however, since this is quite a personal topic due to having friends within the LGBT community, I have decided to put the idea to one side (for now). I have now decided to change my idea to an ex-best friend going 'crazy' at the thought of her ex-friend moving on, so she decides to kill her, however, after taking inspiration from films such as 'The Sixth Sense', I've decided to do it from after the murder has taken place and filming it as a 'conversation' between the ex-friend and the dead friend. Of course, I won't rip off 'The Sixth Sense' as that is plagiarism and copyright, but I may take inspiration from it in terms of how the scene will play out.

Here is my speed pitch for the 'Soft' short film. I went through several ideas of what I could use for it and the one central line in all my drafts and the final pitch was 'Who will stand up for themselves?'. Here is my speed pitch: A father and son are attacked separately by teens. Will the father defend his son, or will the son fight back on his own?

My 'Introduce Myself' video for Uni. It was filmed over the course of a week and edited over three days.