MOOD BOARDSPROPS, LOCATION AND COSTUME

By Caitlin O’Mara, Shannon Sloyan and Angelika Zubrzycka

Location-Pictures By Caitlin O’Mara

Analysis By Caitlin O’Mara, Shannon Sloyan, Angelika Zubrzycka

Our first ideas for our locations were dark enclosed places such as: alleyways, subways and car parks. The reason for these choices are because it goes well with our category which is ‘crime’. We hope to use one of these locations for our opening scene of our documentary, which will include the mysterious crime that will occur within our documentary. Dark enclosed places will hopefully give us the atmosphere that we want to include into our documentary.

We then came up with the idea of the location of having a crime scene, every crime must have a ‘crime scene’. These location will give us the real deal of a crime and will make it seem more realistic.

We the come up with the idea of having an interview scene throughout the documentary, for this to happen we need a location to produce it in. So we thought that we could create the interview in a plain but simple location so we have a back drop that stands out.

We chose this location of a news readers presenting room. Our idea to put this location to use is that we are going to have a 10 second slot where a news reader shall introduce the crime that has happened.

We then chose the location of a mug shot room. This is because we want to use some sort of location to create mug shots of the criminals that we will include into our documentary.

The reasoning behind the choice of the location of a car is because, we would like to include some sort of shot where two people are in a car, this will be one of our flash backs.

The location of the house will be used as the home of the criminal his/herself.

Costume-Pictures By Angelika Zubrzycka

Analysis By Caitlin O’Mara, Shannon Sloyan, Angelika Zubrzycka

We have selected a shirt, tie, jumper and trousers as this is the appropriate attire for a father that we may interview within our documentary. The reason for this choice is because we liked how America’s most wanted suspects and families chose outfits like this to wear when being interviewed, which is casual but suitable for them.

The shoes we have selected for men within the documentary are casual but smart. We selected these because we thought that they were suitable for adults and young adults to wear. Also they fit in with the outfits we have already selected.

Our storyline is about a crime that is mainly based on young adults that attend sixth form, there for they will be wearing smart wear so we think that this will include blazers. We have selected some appropriate ones that our male characters may choose to wear.

The arrows are pointing at trousers and a light blue shirt. This is what we would like our teenager to wear this during our documentary. This is typical of a lad who attends to sixth form. We chose this as we feel like this would suit the storyline of our documentary.

This is our choice of young female adults decision of casual clothing. The reason for this is because we want to show the difference between the adults and the younger adults. As we will be using people of a similar age group to be characters in our documentary.

The footwear we have chosen are converse and puma trainers as these are casual and popular for the age group we specifically focusing on.

We have selected these knee length pencil skirt, a smart top and high heel shoes. This is because it will differentiate what a adult wears and what a young adult would wear. We want to show the difference between a student and a working parent.

Props-Pictures By Shannon Sloyan

Analysis By Caitlin O’Mara, Shannon Sloyan, Angelika Zubrzycka

We chose the prop of a mug shot clip board as it is a key prop that is used in a crime based documentary, for example, The Tales Of a Grim Sleeper.

We chose the props of murder weapons. We decided on the basic murder weapons of a gun and a knife, as the case of most murders in documentaries are either stabbing or shooting incidents.

We then decided that in one of our scenes we would like a flash back to a car scene and for this to happen we need a car. We discussed an idea of

the story that our documentary being a news headline, so a newspaper will help us represent that.

We then came up with the idea that we would like one of our scenes to have a flash back of the crime scene and we thought that to make this seem realistic we could have a crime scene investigator taking photos, meaning one of our props would have to be a camera.

Hand cuffs and police tape is an essential prop as it will help us created the atmosphere of crime setting.

We had the idea of using the chalk as a prop because we can then create a shot that will indicate the scene of the crime.