Proposed Shooting Schedule

Week 8 is fast approaching and ideally I would like to stick to my original schedule and have everything shot before this date. This gives me about two weeks to finish pre-production and shoot the thing.

PROPOSED SHOOT DATE: Thursday 9th September

What PRE-PRODUCTION do I still have to do?

• Talent
• Victim, Suspect 1, 2 and 3.
• Location
• Where? Permissions and logistics.
• Props
• Blood, razor-blade, drugs? cigarettes, broken glass, police tape?
• Equipment
• Medium Format Camera w/ tripod, D90 w/ tripod, 4 Metz flashes (with "magic-eye" and sync lead), batteries, smoke machine, tape measure, gaffa tape, knife, bubble wrap (diffuser), cellophane (filters),

Finally...a reck shoot!

After being post-poned by more than a week I will finally do something that resembles a reck shoot tonight. I plan to go to two locations:

• Parking lot of Greater Union Cinemas, Mosman
• Advantages
• Interior (consistent lighting, access to power)
• Dirty and run-down (cob-webs, graffiti, looks like a place you would kill someone)
• Lighting (overhead lights give spot light effect)
• Disadvantages
• Permission???
• Lighting (can't turn car park lights off)
• Dull?
• The Rocks
• Advantages
• Beautiful
• Location of previous gang wars
• Lots of alleyways
• Lighting (street lights give beautiful effect)
• Disadvantages
• Public (need council permission, public interferance)
• Lack of control (with lighting, extras, etc)
• Dangerous?

Well, these are at least what I forsee as being positives and negatives without having any material to work with. I will have some photos up tomorrow accompanied by an analysis of where I think works better.

The Razor Gangs of the 1920's: Surry Hills

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Razor_gang
http://www.abc.net.au/dimensions/dimensions_in_time/Transcripts/s485143.htm
http://australiancrimes.com/crimes/razorgang.html
http://australiancrimes.com/gangsters.html
http://australiancrimes.com/crimes/harrynewman.html


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'Reck' shoot plan

'Rec' Shoot Plan -> THIS WEEK


Places:
- Darlinghurst
- West Harbour Bridge (Raxor Gang Wars)
- Carraige Works (veranda)

Record:
- Lighting
- Time/date
- Location
- Weather
- Tripod yes/no

Notes

Rodger Rodgerson -> Killed drug dealers
Lenny McFerson

National Arts School
-> right -> alcove -> courtyards
-> back gates -> hangings occured here

Cumberland Street
-> Black day -> hangings occured here

Raw Photo Processor -> for 'film' look

Maybe link DigiComp Project w/ 'Rose'??? (my Professinal Portfolio project)

Questions that must be answered

I am certain that I want to have shots of crime scenes but I still haven't finalised the idea enough to really be anywhere near shooting. Following are a few drafted questions that I am in the process of answering.

-> Do I base all crime scenes around one criminal?
-> Are all photos from one scene or am I photographing multiple scenes?
-> Are all photos of similar crimes?
-> Where will I shoot?
-> What props should I start sourcing now?

I was talking to my friend Pete Wildman today, and he suggested that I play out a crime in a domestic setting (for example) and be a forensic photographer myself. He and I thought it would be interesting to put myself in the shoes of one of these people and see what would obscure objects I would notice and deem useful as evidence. This is slightly different to my idea of using a real past crimes and recreating them but it would still produce in-your-face images.

It is something to think about!

Famous Criminals: Past - Present

Last week there was a suggestion by my tutor to model the crime scenes off real life events. I found this comment interesting because I believe the scenes will be a lot more chilling if people know that they are recreations instead of random scenes. This has promted me to do some research into criminals (in particular murderers) that would be appropriate. Just a warning, some off these stories are intense to say the least.


Ted Bundy (link) - Serial killer active in the United States in the 1970's. 'Ted' murdered around 100 people and escaped custody two times before being sentanced to death by the electric chair for his crimes.

The 'Craiglist Killer' (link)- Former medical student ordered massage therapists from the website Craigs-list only to shoot them (committed suicide while incarcerated at age 26; 2010).