Pre-Production - edited teaser

Teaser - for some reason it has come out with a weird grey bit at the beginning

Pre - Production teaser samples more to come..

Pre-Production Unit

I realise I have neglected blogging a bit this week as I have been head deep in dissertation but I do have lots to blog about!

Okay, so the first week of easter, Cat, Dylan and I took another trip to brighton to shoot our trailer/teaser footage. We went down the beach, under the pier and around the front to shoot and get stills for the posters. We also tried shooting from a high up car park roof, but the car park police told us off, we weren't allowed to film up there :( We then went off the shoreham habour (a location in the book) and got some more footage and then to more 'grotty' looking houses around brighton, to get a feel for the 'real' brighton and contrast it to the tourist pretty beach front.

It was a great trip and we got some great stuff.

Then last saturday night Cat and I went into Barming woods to film some more for the trailer/teaser and it was every eventful! Firstly I had to pull my car into a very dodgey track as we wanted the scene to be lit by car headlights like the book/script describes, as we were taking sound and waiting for the sun to set we noticed that were some very strange debris around this particular part of woods, there were lots and lots of disregarded and partly buried clothes, debris of what looked like a very bad car crash or as I proposed 'insurance fraud' also partly buried in the mud. There was also a carpet which we were too frightened to lift in case there was a dead body underneath. (we were filming a mock up burial for a crime novel, our imaginations were in overdrive)

But the shoot was great, the new sound case blimp thingy-mi-bobby was awesome, all sounds were crystal clear, we made sure we got a lot of stomping, walking, digging, car door/engine and just general woods noises for the trailer soundtrack. We also played with shadows from the headlights and shakey OTH shots (hoping it doesnt come out too blair witch)

So by this time it was pitch black and we were in the middle of a secluded wood, and with the CSI scene around us and being two girls alone, we'd started to feel a bit creeped out. This is then topped off by a car slowing coming down the tracks and Cat and I absolutely terrified that we are about to be murdered, I near enough shove Cat and the kit in the car shouting "Oh my god, just get in the car cat, get in the car!!!"

We are sat nervously in the car, not really knowing what to do, when Cat exclaims "Its the Police!" So for the second time on this project we've had a run in with the police, which is very ironic as our project is pretty much about the police. But he was very nice and said he just wondered what a car was doing down there. So the moral of the story is, don't overwork your imagination and maybe take a boy with you into the secluded dark woods. Oh, and to add to the horror movie cliche, my mobile was dead!

ANYWHO, the agent I contacted about Felicity Jones never got back to me :( I am going to try again and some others but my IMDB Pro account expired the other day so I was going to borrow one of the other guys login and emails to get a new one :)

Next on the list is editing the trailer/teaser and getting all the location stills from the 7D that Dylan has.

Dissertation

I am really enjoying writing my dissertation, even though philosophy is such a headachey subject, I am on chapter 3 now and I only have to finish that and the conclusion and then I have hit my goal of giving in a full word count draft :)

I am very glad I chose the subject that I have as I feel really passionate about it so it makes it almost fun to write!

Pre-Production Unit - contacting agents

I signed up for Imdb Pro which gave me access to Felicity Jones's agent information and I have sent out an email to her commercial talent agent Louise Owens at IndependentTalent -

Louise,

My name is Casey Parker and I am studying Broadcast Media at University. I was wondering if you wouldn't mind helping me with a question for a uni project.

We are working on a hypothetical fiction adaptation, we are hypothetically adapting the Peter James crime fiction novel Dead Simple for a television series and one of my jobs is to work on fantasy cast. For one of the characters I have cast Felicity Jones and Imdb Pro listed you as her commercial talent agent. I was just wondering if you had a CV on file for her that I may be able to have (obviously any personal contact details removed) or if she would ever 'hypothetically' consider a role like this. The role is Ashley Harper - a very beautiful yet manipulative con artist who marries rich men and then a partner in crime would kill them, leaving her with a nice inheritance.

I would greatly appreciate if you could help me with anything regarding this.

Thank you so much for your time,

Casey Parker

UCA Broadcast Media

Maidstone Studios

Pre-Production Unit - Casting Alison Vosper

Amanda Donohoe is stern looking yet not unattractive like character Alison Vosper.

She was in liar liar in which she played Fletcher's boss and was a bit of a bitch and she was also a murderer I believe in Emmerdale.