Preliminary Task - Story Proposal

Working Title:
‘Cold Case’

Production: 
opening title sequence

Genre:
Crime

Duration: 
1 minute 12 seconds

Target Audience:
15 to 60, male

Director/Editor: 
Rachel Fillon-Payoux

Outline:

DETECTIVE walks into a dark questioning room and sits down opposite SUSPECT (Jessica) to question her about the murder of her friend earlier that month. This conversation lasts roughly 1 minute. During this time, the DETECTIVE moves around the room, sitting on, and leaning over the table.

Cast:

DETECTIVE - Tia Weeks

MURDER SUSPECT - Ellie D’Sylva

Characters:

DETECTIVE - a middle aged black woman 

MURDER SUSPECT - a teenage girl named Jessica

Setting:

An interrogation room that is low-key lit and inside a police station.

Visual Elements: 

• lighting
• camera movement
• editing
• setting
• actors
• props 
• costume

Audio Elements:

• synchranous sound (diegetic)
• vocals

Equipment:

• Canon camera
• SD card
• mobile phone 
• torch

Props:

• chairs
• table
• folder
• printed photograph of MURDER SUSPECT in an alleyway

Rationale:

This idea was chosen because it isn't a conventional confrontation between two people; it has a plot and a resolve. A crime genre has strong senses of tension and anticipation as well as being unique because it is not frequently used or with the same story-line.

Budget: 

All equipment and props are borrowed. There are no added effects and actors are volunteers. Total cost = £00.00