4. Claimed Timeline
0:00
Mark
leaves
for
work.
8:00
Daisy
and
Rachel
leave
for work
and
school.
9:15
Jesse
leaves
for
work.
1:00-
2:00
Rachel
comes
home
to take
dog on
walk.
2:40
Mark
arrives
home
and
heads
to bed.
4:30
Daisy
arrives
home
from
school
with
lift.
4:40
Daisy
discovers
cake in
cupboard.
5:00
Jesse
arrives
home
from
work.
6:00
Rachel
arrives
home
from
work
Truth timeline
Rachel
collabora
tes
marks
story.
Morning
routine
no
reason
to
doubt.
Cycled
to
work,
arrived
at 10,
on sign
in
sheet.
Will
test.
No
witnesses
and the
dog is
staying
silent. And
we know
from the
phone call
she did not
head back
to work.
Will
interview
work
colleague.
They
dispute
phone call.
Again no
witnesses.
And as he
has a long
commute
we can not
verify this
arrival
time.
Maybe
check
satnav.
Phone call
disputes this
saying arrived
at 4:00.
No witnesses,
but she is
usually dropped
off around 4:00.
No reason
to doubt
the
timing.
But was
dad
actually
asleep?
Sign out time
out at work
bakes this time
as well as
others saying
this is when he
arrived home.
Maybe
not
form
work
but she
did
arrive
back
home
at this
time.
5. Ideas
• Zoom into each photo for investigation.(crime board)
• Embarrassing Rachel keeps interrupting shots.(hiding something)
• ‘just stop digging’
• I know I'm suspicious, and I tried to get Paxman on the line but I got the
next best thing.
• Show awkward scene of family after incident.
• Turns out dad tried to lay out and decorate cake and accidently dropped it.
• Emerson interview.
• Characters pointout im dragging this out.
6. Ideas
• Props: Cake, Police Tape, Chalk, White Tape.
• Footage of analysing crime scene.(after removed)
• Snapchat message demonstrate what it looked like during crime.
• Photo of cake when fully formed(website or camera/snapchat.)
• Recreation of crime, how it could of happened, drop on floor.
• Someone describing crime scene.
• Camera/Audio didn’t pick that up so lets have a look back at what
happened.
• Linda has gone for a job interview.
7. Voice over ideas
Everybody loves birthdays right? The parties, the presents and to well put the
cherry on the cake, the cake. Well for one young lady all of that changed on the 5th
of May 2018.
Commenting on dads interview:
On the face of it you cant disagree. Freddie (insert image) has a history with
stealing food and even cake (image of family party) ,previously eating chocolate
cake, landing him at the vets. But there was something about this whole business
that didn’t sit right with me.
Doesn’t sit right with me that the cake was so far from the cupboard.
Not much happens here in the village.(shots of the village)
8. Shot ideas
• Shots of Fred.
• Crime Scene shots.
• Photo of all the family members.
• Interview at mums work.
• Corkboard, drawing lines.
• Timeline slowly forming/coming together.
• Shots of Mittens.
9. Ideas
• Start intro/Dad Interview.(Flashing in and out)
• Intrigue in first part, stay vague about the case.
• First of all right a good plot and then add good jokes.
• Don’t you fancy cake now (awkward).
• Keep Camera rolling after interview, caught saying something.
• Physical evidence, pieces of paper, An address?
• Conveniently timed reveals to keep up pace of show, set up nature of these
shows.
• Could solve case really easily, target of investigation moves to family
secrets. Or someone comes forward with something that makes everything
really simple, put in after credits.
10. Who’s Lying?
• Rachel- Not at work when she says she was, where was she? Why lie?
Who was she with? (could make it so she was planning a birthday
surprise)(Tip-off call)
• Daisy-Home earlier than admitted/was in village, Why lie? Who was
she with? what's she hiding? (tip-off call)(Letter)(text)(social media
message)
• Mark-Wasn’t asleep, Dropped cake. Cracks under pressure. Too eager
to blame Freddie.
• Jesse-Dropped cake, creating story for the doc. Eager to make doc.
Needed ideas, creative block. Scenario benefits him.
11. Shot composition idea
• Start:
• Titles cut with Mark interview.(intro flashing in and out of
interview(multiple)with credits)
• Explanation of case and who is being blamed.
• Interview with Daisy.
• Explaining that I thought I had a dead rubber (not exactly the next serial)
• Speech about nothing deeper going on…
• Until received a phone call a week or so after I started this…
• Play phone call.
• End by saying maybe more secrets lie beneath the surface.
• END with credits and trailer/preview of next episode.
12. Daisy Phone call
• JL-Hello?
• PC-Hi, I have some info for you
• JL-What ,who is this?
• PC-Look just listen alright ,Daisy didn’t get back home at 4:30 we, I
mean someone dropped her off in err Boytin at like 4:00.
• JL-What who is this? Hello? crap…
• Narration- who was on the phone? Why did they know I was doing
this, and how do they know this about Daisy, and most importantly is
it true?
13. Rachel phone call
• JL-Hello?
• PC-Hi, I have some information for you.
• JL-(excitedly) Who is this?
• PC-I’m just calling to say I know that Rachel had the afternoon off work.
• JL-what, how do you? Who is this? Hello? Balls
• This call took me back, why were people lying to me? Over just a cake?
Maybe not…
• END
14. Ideas
• Question Mark about why he's not more bothered about his wife's missing time, maybe they both
know something.
• Cake eaten/destroyed.
• Actual theft, maybe some jewellery went missing.
• Possible conspiracy, I did it for the doc as I had no original ideas.
• Solve it in 5 minutes(joke).
• Footage of everyone sitting down to their interviews. Sync up clips of them saying there names.
• Each character describes part of what happened.(cut between)So they form together to give the
full picture, maybe each person has slightly different story.
• Go to Rachel’s work, film on phone, apologise for poor footage or just get audio.
• All my questions cause tension which I blindly blame on the incident? Or question whether what
I'm doing is right.
• Rachel interrupts voice over.
• Start with the end of the series and say ‘you might be wondering how I got here.’
15. • Question Elwood about the snack he likes to have when he gets back.
• He says that the peanut butter was in the kitchen I rebuff that it was
in the pantry.
16. Shots I Need
• Elwood Interview
• Tom Interview
• Lina Interview
• Elise Interview
• Artsy Shots
• Mum Interrupting interviews/Shots.
• Crime scene shots
• Photos of everyone and evidence
• Corkboard/crime board
• Timeline
• Credits
• Phone calls.
• Footage after interviews.
• Cameras stop and audio continues.
• Catch audio
• Far away shots of secret conversations
• Film awkward family
• Overdramatic sad Freddie shots
• Commentary/voice over
17. Mark Lapworth interview
• JL-Hi can you state your name for the record?
• ML-Yep, I’m Mark Lapworth
• JL-And can you tell me about the day of the incident?
• ML- your talking about the cake thing right?
• JL-Yes
• ML-Well I was working nights that week and so I got home in the afternoon that day after leaving for work at about midnight. I got
in took Fred for a poo and then went to bed, the next thing I know I was awoken, Awoke? Anyway a load of shouting from
downstairs got me up.
• Pause…(maybe mum enters the room or Freddie)
• JL- And then?(trying to keep the interview moving)
• ML-Oh right, sorry, so after I got up I went downstairs and saw Daisy standing over her half eaten birthday cake.(look of guilt)I
mean look I don’t know why we are even talking about this because I mean its pretty clear who, or should I say what it was.
• JL-(interjecting) you mean Freddie
• ML-(raise eyebrows in acknowledgement) He does these things all the time. Its the reason he is now in his cage during the day.
• Is all of this to much like exposition?
• Ask If Elwood ate anything?
19. Character profile Elwood
• He is a little clumsy.
• Sweet.
• always likes to be the good guy, even if this means lying to continue his image.
• Will pile more lies on to avoid looking like the bad guy.
• Not very intelligent in his lies, very impulsive and start to crumble when you analyse them.
• Nervous (shy).
• An only child he grew up with just his dad who was never vey impressed with what he did,
causing him to be unsure in life and hide his mistakes. He is determined to encourage his children
in what they do unlike his dad.
• But he is conflicted with this doc as it may expose him.
• He has always been a family man and a homely man to who has never had ambitions of moving to
a city or pursuing a stressful career. This at times has caused conflict between the husband and
wife duo.
• An old fashioned outlook often causes conflict between him and his rebellious daughter.
20. Character profile Tom
• Driven.
• Not very emotional. Passionate about the things he does. Keeps a level
head, until something hits close to what he believes.
• Always has to know the truth. No matter whether he should or not.
• He is a campaigner for a number of different groups.
• Believes he knows better than others and that others should care as much
about the truth as him.
• Loves making documentaries, especially investigative ones.
• Grown up in a small town, determined to make a move to somewhere
where things are happening. He is the slight outsider in what is a tightly
knit family.
21. Character profile Linda
• As a career driven woman she has always wanted to move to a big town for
a big job.
• Happy to put her career on hold for her family, she is no assessing where
she is now her family has grown up and what she should do with her
career.
• A woman who has installed her driven spirit into her children.
• Her poorer background has made her want to rise through the ranks whilst
also allowing her to keep her empathy and meaning she finds it easy to be
friends with anyone from any background(a social chameleon).
• Charming.likeable.
22. Character profile Elise
• ‘popular’ girl at school.
• Thinks her oldest brother Tom is a bit nerdy, doesn’t want to be
associated with his project.
• Would much rather hang out with friends than family.
• Takes after her mum with her social aptitude.
• Very confident in the things that she does.
• Usually busy doing two thing at once. Never happy just to sit still she
always likes to be doing something.
23. Elwood Interview Objectives
• Timeline of events.
• Who he thinks it was.
• Question his motives. Opportunity.
• Known to lie why should I believe him.
• Did he grab anything to eat when he got home?
24. Elise interview objectives
• Timeline of events.
• Establish how she got home.
• Why won’t she show her face.
• Question motives. Opportunities.
• Who she blame.why.
25. Linda interview objectives
• Timeline.
• What happened at lunch.
• Who she blames. Why.
• Question motives. Opportunity.
• Did she eat lunch, what she have?
26. Elwood Final interview. (kitchen)
• J-Hi Hi there, would you like to take a seat?
• M-(Raises eyebrows in acknowledgment and takes a seat.)
• J-So could you tell me your name for the record please?
• M-Yeah, erm, hi my name is Elwood.
• J-ok, and I would just like you to take me through what happened on the day of the incident.
• M-Well I got home from work around about 2:30-3:00…
• J-this in the afternoon after working nights, right?
• M-yeah, right, sorry. So then after that well I got home and then I went to bed I guess. Its what I always do, always straight to bed,
sometimes grab something to eat but that day I think I went straight to bed. But then a few hours later like 5ish I suppose I got
woken up by stuff going on downstairs.
• J-Shouting right?
• M-Yeah shouting, I went to see what happened and well Elise's cake was there… on the floor. It looked like it had been eaten a bit
too. And she was pretty upset. I mean there was no saving it really, it was all over the place.
• R- Interuppts interview. How are you boys doing in here you uncovered the mystery?(sweet)
• Take still talk over.
27. Elwood other questions to be asked
• J- So who do you think did it?
• M- probably the dog I guess. Makes the most sense… I think.
• J-So when you get home from work what do you usually do?
• M-go to bed(concerned).
• J-Nothing else? Not even grab a snack?
• M-well yeah I suppose so. Like I usually have a peanut butter
sandwich but that day I didn’t fancy one cause I’d had a meal deal
earlier that day so I wasn’t hungry.
28. Elise Final Interview (living room)
• J-Hi there, thanks for coming down for the interview.
• D-Yeah whatever. You cant use my face though, if anyone knows I'm in this.
• J-don’t worry well make sure no one can tell its you. So can you tell me about the day of the
incident?
• D-uggh look I got home like 4 and then I found the cake, stop calling it the incident, it is so
embarrassing.
• J-Well I think it could be more interesting than you think.
• D-it’s a birthday cake that got dropped, not that interesting.
• J- so you think someone dropped it? Interesting, others blame Andy.
• D- do not make this into a big thing. Who cares.
• J-I care.
• D- so dumb, (walks off)….
Mum I cannot believe you made me do this.
29. Linda interview (Sitting at desk doing stuff)
• J-Hi Linda can I chat to you about the 5th of may?
• R-Calling me mum too embarrassing?
• Silence for a few seconds.
• R-Ok Tom what do you want to know?
• J- could you just tell me what you remember about the day?
• R-Well I was working, so I probably left off for work at about 8. Then you know sold some houses, normal
Tuesday morning. And then I came back at lunchtime to walk the dog and grab some lunch and then back to
work for.
• J- so nothing really that special about the day then?
• R- Not that I can remember. Until I got back home at around about six, then I got a bit of a surprise.
• J- The cake?
• R- Yeah, well kind of, you know Elise told me about and showed me a photo.
• J- and what do you think?
• R- Who do I think did it? Well the dog I suppose.
