Film

All Filming and autopsy pictures have been completed and sent to Simon and he is working on them this weekend.

The footage captured has been influenced by graphic novels and turned into films eg: Watchmen, Sin city. The concept was to have black and white shots with vibrant red where subjects blood is, this was disscussed with Simon and is being added to the footage.

Jeanne the shots you have mentioned have been captured with certain subjects throughout filming to the best of myself and James’s ability, but due to the issue with the green screen we were unable to capture some shots effectively, however I have been in contact with simon and if anymore filming needs to be done i will be informed.

Autopsy images were taken as stills to represent that of a graphic novel style, I have uploaded some images that have not been converted yet so you can have an insight into them (hope there on here). The stimuli for this concept was the TV series Bones and CSI, throughout the series Bones a computer simulation programme is used to recreate sujects deaths aided in capturing different angles.

I was influenced by photographer Max Becherer ( In a photographers memory, images of the dead) From the Newyork times published March 18th 2008. Due to the way his photographs capture the natural essence of the situation and honestly delivers it to the audience. I have also been influenced by Photojournalist Bill Putnam and the way he captured the intensity of the aftermath of the Iraqi war. These graphic images gave me an insight of  how to capture an intence atmisphere throughout the film clips and through the camera lense. 

Jodie Ann Martin

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hey sorry forgot to add this tiny thing ,for filming am not sure if this has all ready been done:-
- slow movements of the heads been moved .

- hands been moved away form the wounds people might be holding to show more blood

-or filming little things such as when janey kicks the gun out of scotts hand when hes dead on the floor.

-detailed shots of fingers checking for a pulse.

-Or images of blood been splattered over money.
Just a few more ideas.

Jennan Al-Hilfi xx

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hey , here are just a few ideas and bits and bobs i been finding and thinking about,i realise there not the best or they might not work but maybe if it influences anymore ideas from people then maybe we might have even more scenes: -
-people mentioned marking each death by been over the top,from that i thought we could freeze certain points or create a frame for certain deaths ,as if you was watching a film.

-robbers planning and preparation,worked in with amys text we could light each section of the bank/stage till full lights are up ,for us to kick in the scene.

-for the interragation scene with jordon and janey the scene behind could show an old recording device that would be used in police questioning to record the evidence and because we are doing it silent hopefully with muffled noises over us to showjaneys confusion.on the silent bits the audience will hear just the winding on of the tape.

-i really like the idea of a song,but if that doesnt work or happen ,i thought we could maybe create all the noises in the bank ourselves such as doors closing,tills opening,the gun been shot,different screams from different people,all grasping for air like jodies character,or create thumping noises of peoples bodies dropping to the floor.even use the graphic novel idea of insted of making the literal sounds we could say them like ‘slam’ etc.or even just hum a song just to set an atmosphere it could be really cheesy or it could feel quite ere/haunting.

-im not sure if on the scene behind us we was having continuos filming of us or if we was also using still images.if we are usig still images i thought that we could have pictures of blood underneath the fingernails from were people have been holding there wounds or even stained inbetween there teeth.

-i came across a photography called arthur fellig ,who would take photos of crime scenes the photos arent really sixties there quite LA confidential looking, but all the images are in black and white with police putting sheets over murder victims or pictures of sheets with blood coming through the sheets,and even the press taking photos of the bodys etc… maybe not the style we were going for but we could maybe be influenced by more movies ,artists, photographys, music.

Jennan Al-hilfi xx

Friday 15th May

Can everyone remember costume/props etc tomorrow, not sure whether we will definately need them but better to be prepared. Also going to come up with a hair/make-up schedule for days of performances as we will need to start early. Can anyone who can do their hair themselves let either myself or Milli know. Thanks guys, Janey.

Music

Hello guys,
Just to let you know I have found a few songs that would be good for us to use for the “Role Reversal” and for “Zoes imagination”(the one where she tries to talk to us). For the Role reversal the song i found is french and called-”Poupee de cire poupee de son” by France Galle, you can check this out at – http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b46d_zk5CKI and let me know what you think. Thought this would be ironic as its a really upbeat song and french and we have all changed parts. The other song, is quite dreamy, and i thought this would fit. Its called “Venus” by Frankie Avalon, and you can hear it on youtube as well http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lFiDqP_rrEs&feature=related . Let me or anyone else on the music team know what you think, I will have the songs in tomorow so we can try them. I also have a few songs to try out for other scenes, that are 60′s but not as well known, finding a song for the movement will be a case of trial and error. Some of the songs might me useless for the play but we could have some playing as the audience come in, if people would like to. The songs are :
Suzanne by Leonard Cohen
hold me, thrill me, kiss me -Mel Carter(very cheesy though).
Wear your love like heaven-Donovan
I wish i was five – Scrugg
there is also a very odd jazzy,noise song, that might be to Stylised called The inflated tear. We also have “Those were the days my friend”, which i have got with different artists, but again i think they might be to upbeat, but we can use them for audience entrances. We also have the Johnny cash song and a few others. We can try them tomorow and see what everyone thinks. If you have any songs, or you want to hear any the others, Email me shazzy_baby94@hotmail.com and i will send them on.
Thanks
Sharon x

What we have so far

Hey everyone, thought it would be worthwile considering what we have already done and what still needs to be done.The scenes we have so far are;
*The movement sequence(we need to decide if this is deffinatly going together with the autopsy scene and how we are linking the two.)
*The autopsy text, pictures and basic staging
*The role reversal scene
*The change around scene-angles
*the gorfest
*Maggies plan
*What zoe think happened
*Last supper(which still needs devised)
*What really happened(with music and with internal monolgues. We obviously can’t progress with this until we have the monologues though.From this I think we now need to decide what else(if anything) which needs to be added to the scenes so that we can then progress and tighten the scenes up.Are we adding any other scenes and does anyone think we’re missing anything out which we should add as a scene?
Amy Anderson

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Hello, was rather productive at times today, managed to get another scene devised, feel like we have made some progress in this last week, still feel like there are loads of ideas still flying around, I really like for the last supper the idea of having some sort of scene with the back to the auidence and the faces on screen or just the eyes, and the voice mixed via live and recorded, in doing this we can have flashbacks on the film to show some more subtext and backstory within the robbers, i dont think the last supper should be specifically about the robbery because we have already got that from the scene we did today, i think the last supper needs to unerpin the relationships between the robbers and show something of the love triangle, i think that that is what is missing from the piece there is not a clear indication of characters and there lifes. I really like the Janey scene, witht hte interregation and i think the sound would really work and also when Janey speaks there could be parts that become really muffled and when shes rewinding and going back on herself the words could do this. Just to ask again, what do people think of the police tape and having that around the stage maybe having flashing lights and siren noises to open the play, so that when the audiencemembers enter they become part of the crime scene. Jordans character can be there lifting the tape up letting the audience in. I mentioned this today to about the forum theatre idea, having a scene where we try to get the audience involved in the piece by getting them to try change scenario, this is obsvioubsly going to be particularly hard because we dont know what the audience will be like, just an idea that i thought i would put up though. Something that i think we need to work on tomorrow is the slow motion which we have in some scenes, they mentioned this last time we were in and think we need to polish it and mkae sure that the slow motion is perfected. Now we have an order would be good to run it tommorow and see how we can link the scenes together and how we are getting into new scenes, liked the Johnny cash song that would be nice one to sing or use for choral work. see you all tommorrow.
James Crowther

Text for the ‘Maggies plan’ scene.

Hey guys, I have written up the scene which we done today so hopefully it will help us out in the next rehearsal as the robbers will have a clearer understanding of the dialogue which will hopfully make the scene more snappy and more to the point. Let me know what you think.

Amy
It will be a Saturday; there’ll be two cashiers on-both female. The manager will be in as well, he’s either standing talking to the cahiers or in the back. He’s not a threat. The Panic button’s located at the north side of the bank behind the cash desk-that’s the biggest problem so we can’t let the cashiers get to it.

Jennan
There’s a panic button?

Amy
Course there’s a panic button , it’s a bank. What were you expecting? If we deal with the situation right there’ll be no need to think about it. The cashiers are our biggest threat-deal with them first.

Scott
What do you mean deal with them?

Amy
I mean deal with them; make sure they don’t press the alarm. Make sure they give you the money. There’ll more than likely be a few customers waiting in the waiting area on the west side of the bank; there shouldn’t be a threat by the customers and unless a customer intervenes leave them. There will be a queue, Jane, you will enter the bank alone and wait in the queue, keep yourself to yourself (Jane speaks to customer), don’t talk to anyone unless they talk to you. When you get to the desk ask for the money. …don’t ask DEMAND the money! Show them your gun. Get the money and go.

Scott
It’s not going to be as simple as that though, what if she goes for the panic button?

Amy
If she goes for the button, you stop her, kill her if you need to. As long as you get the money and get out you’ll be ok. There will be a queue, Jane, you will enter the bank alone and wait in the queue, keep yourself to yourself (Jane speaks to customer), don’t talk to anyone unless they talk to you. When you get to the desk ask for the money. …don’t ask DEMAND the money! Show them your gun. Jim will be outside if you need help. Jim, you’ll go in and help her. If she goes for the button stop her; shoot her.

Scott
I’m not going to shoot her. I won’t kill her.

Amy
If you want to get out without getting caught you’ll need to shoot her. Stop her or she’ll press the button; kill her (Jenan shoots cashier.) Get the money and go….Go!!

James
I know but, I can’t see it working. What if the customers intervene?

Amy
You use your common sense. You stop them; we need to take control of the situation. There will be a queue, Jane, you will enter the bank alone and wait in the queue, keep yourself to yourself (Jane speaks to customer), don’t talk to anyone unless they talk to you. When you get to the desk ask for the money. …don’t ask DEMAND the money! Show them your gun. Jim, Luke, if she needs help you need to enter. Take control; get the money and go (customers discuss attacking the robbers.) Jane-stop him-shoot him! Quick, now get the money and go. Get out.

Scott
The police could come or anything though, then what would we do?

Amy

There will be a queue, Jane, you will enter the bank alone and wait in the queue, keep yourself to yourself (Jane speaks to customer), don’t talk to anyone unless they talk to you. When you get to the desk ask for the money. …don’t ask DEMAND the money! Show them your gun. Jim, Luke, if she needs help you need to enter. Take control. Get the money and go. Jim, Luke, control the customers-Jane, get the money. Quick, get the money and go, get out-go!

If we use our common sense and stick to the plan, we’ll be fine. We’ll get in, get the money and go-end of the situation and we leave happy. You need to be prepared to kill-if it stops us getting caught we will do it! We need to control the situation.
There will be a queue, Jane, you will enter the bank alone and wait in the queue, keep yourself to yourself (Jane speaks to customer), don’t talk to anyone unless they talk to you. When you get to the desk ask for the money. …don’t ask DEMAND the money! Show them your gun. Jim, Luke, if she needs help you need to enter. Take control. Me, Jim and Luke will help , we’ll watch the customers, Jane you will get the money. We get the money and leave.

Amy Anderson xx

Text for the ‘Maggies plan’ scene.

Hey guys, I have written up the scene which we done today so hopefully it will help us out in the next rehearsal as the robbers will have a clearer understanding of the dialogue which will hopfully make the scene more snappy and more to the point. Let me know what you think.

Amy
It will be a Saturday; there’ll be two cashiers on-both female. The manager will be in as well, he’s either standing talking to the cahiers or in the back. He’s not a threat. The Panic button’s located at the north side of the bank behind the cash desk-that’s the biggest problem so we can’t let the cashiers get to it.

Jennan
There’s a panic button?

Amy
Course there’s a panic button , it’s a bank. What were you expecting? If we deal with the situation right there’ll be no need to think about it. The cashiers are our biggest threat-deal with them first.

Scott
What do you mean deal with them?

Amy
I mean deal with them; make sure they don’t press the alarm. Make sure they give you the money. There’ll more than likely be a few customers waiting in the waiting area on the west side of the bank; there shouldn’t be a threat by the customers and unless a customer intervenes leave them. There will be a queue, Jane, you will enter the bank alone and wait in the queue, keep yourself to yourself (Jane speaks to customer), don’t talk to anyone unless they talk to you. When you get to the desk ask for the money. …don’t ask DEMAND the money! Show them your gun. Get the money and go.

Scott
It’s not going to be as simple as that though, what if she goes for the panic button?

Amy
If she goes for the button, you stop her, kill her if you need to. As long as you get the money and get out you’ll be ok. There will be a queue, Jane, you will enter the bank alone and wait in the queue, keep yourself to yourself (Jane speaks to customer), don’t talk to anyone unless they talk to you. When you get to the desk ask for the money. …don’t ask DEMAND the money! Show them your gun. Jim will be outside if you need help. Jim, you’ll go in and help her. If she goes for the button stop her; shoot her.

Scott
I’m not going to shoot her. I won’t kill her.

Amy
If you want to get out without getting caught you’ll need to shoot her. Stop her or she’ll press the button; kill her (Jenan shoots cashier.) Get the money and go….Go!!

James
I know but, I can’t see it working. What if the customers intervene?

Amy
You use your common sense. You stop them; we need to take control of the situation. There will be a queue, Jane, you will enter the bank alone and wait in the queue, keep yourself to yourself (Jane speaks to customer), don’t talk to anyone unless they talk to you. When you get to the desk ask for the money. …don’t ask DEMAND the money! Show them your gun. Jim, Luke, if she needs help you need to enter. Take control; get the money and go (customers discuss attacking the robbers.) Jane-stop him-shoot him! Quick, now get the money and go. Get out.

Scott
The police could come or anything though, then what would we do?

Amy

There will be a queue, Jane, you will enter the bank alone and wait in the queue, keep yourself to yourself (Jane speaks to customer), don’t talk to anyone unless they talk to you. When you get to the desk ask for the money. …don’t ask DEMAND the money! Show them your gun. Jim, Luke, if she needs help you need to enter. Take control. Get the money and go. Jim, Luke, control the customers-Jane, get the money. Quick, get the money and go, get out-go!

If we use our common sense and stick to the plan, we’ll be fine. We’ll get in, get the money and go-end of the situation and we leave happy. You need to be prepared to kill-if it stops us getting caught we will do it! We need to control the situation.
There will be a queue, Jane, you will enter the bank alone and wait in the queue, keep yourself to yourself (Jane speaks to customer), don’t talk to anyone unless they talk to you. When you get to the desk ask for the money. …don’t ask DEMAND the money! Show them your gun. Jim, Luke, if she needs help you need to enter. Take control. Me, Jim and Luke will help , we’ll watch the customers, Jane you will get the money. We get the money and leave.

Amy Anderson xx

Zoe Interview

Hello.

I’ve typed up the Zoe/Constable interview that was devised on Monday.

Zoe Interview

As usual if anyone thinks there should be any changes made then let me know.

A couple of ideas that I had today and while typing this up were -

- I think we should maybe try and find ways of carrying on the scene while Zoe and the Constable are talking. Just to get rid of the ‘freeze framing’.

- It might also be interesting if we tried experimenting with James Crowther’s suggestion of creating a sort of soundscape. This could act as a soundtrack for this scene. I.e. we make the gun noises, the sounds of people screaming and crying etc. This might help give the audience an insight into what Zoe heard (or is hearing).