The group created a crime drama trailer titled "Suspected" because their story involved accusations. Their story involved a woman being murdered in her flat while a gang burgled the flat below. CCTV footage showed the gang fleeing and the police suspected them of the murder. Three gang members were caught but two escaped. The woman's ex-husband, a police officer, framed the gang to cover up that he committed the murder. In the end, the two escaped gang members killed the officer. [The group faced challenges in filming their planned crime drama trailer due to scheduling conflicts and having different actors portray the same character.]

1. Evaluation
In my group were Georgia and Laura and we decided to name our crime drama ‘Suspected’.
We named it this because our drama is about accusations so we thought the title will fit in
with our drama.
The main story of our crime drama is about a woman who gets murdered in a flat when
below her a gang of thugs are burgling the flat underneath. They get caught on CCTV fleeing
the building and that’s when the police think that they were the ones that committed the
crime. 3 of the gang members get caught, but the other 2 escape; they get questioned by
the police but none admit to it. The man who really killed the women was her ex-husband,
an officer himself, and accuses the thugs that they killed the woman. In the end the 2 other
gang members kill the police officer who actually committed the crime.
The CCTV footage- I used a black
and white effect on the CCTV part to
actually make it look more realistic.
Panning the camera made it give a
more realistic effect as well.
The scene of the dead victim was good
because we did different angles which
make it more effective. This is good
because in crime conventions they usually
have a crime scene.
In this scene we did an over the
shoulder shot to show conversation
and a better view of what they’re
doing.

2. After the CCTV footage the ‘coming
soon’ fades onto the screen and
then it goes into the trailer. At the
end scene of Luke running,
suspected fades onto the screen and
then goes black and the music
comes off.
These were just some equipment that we needed for our drama and a short script.
To help get ideas for our crime drama trailer we watched different crime drama starting credits. I think that
watching these helped a lot to help create ideas for our trailers and help think of a main story to create.
We also made mind maps to help think of crimes, characters and settings.
We also made a ’12 stages of
film’ prezi to help understand the
making and process that goes
into making films.

3. We all contributed as much as we could and all of us had
different roles to do, so we were all busy. Georgia was the
camera man, Laura acted in a few scenes and I directed and
acted in some scenes as well.
Our crime drama ‘Suspected’ didn’t really go to plan as we hoped, but we were still able to
create a good enough trailer each to present our drama with the footage that we had.
First of all the script that we originally created was good but we put too much information in
it which makes it more of a full episode rather than a trailer, which only needs little videos
of different parts of the episode.
The schedule for our filming didn’t go to plan either due to needing actors in our film which
we couldn’t use for all of our filming, due to them having to film their own dramas
themselves. Because of using different people for different parts of the film made it seem
like there was more characters in our production when actually they were portraying the
same character. However, luckily it was only a trailer we were creating, which means you
don’t need to tell a main story just a basic storyline not needing to say which character is
who unless you wanted to. Another reason our schedule didn’t go to plan was because
some of the members of our group (including myself) were absent which means that
possibly not a lot of work could have been done without the full group.
On the other hand we did record some good shots even though they were not what we
planned to film.
Next time I plan to follow and create a better schedule that’s reasonable for the entire
group to be there when needed to film. Also to use people that are able to be filmed
throughout our film so we don’t have to use different people which makes it confusing
because we have different people playing different characters. Another thing to do next
time is to remember that we were only filming a trailer, so we don’t need a lot of
information that will give away the main story and only small clips will be needed. Other
than that I think our next time filming will be a success.
Unit 5: Video Production – Feedback
Strengths –add an ‘S’ to the part you think works best. You can grade more than one part.

4. Story
Camera Work
Editing
Music
Sound Effects
Special Effects
Titles
Does it look like a crime
drama?
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Weakness –add a ‘W’ to the part you think is the weakest. You can grade more than one
part.
Story
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Camera Work
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Editing
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Music
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Sound Effects
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Special Effects
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Titles
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Does it look like a crime
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drama?
What improvements could be made?
Improve on acting
Music gets boring after a while
For my crime drama the strengths were story, camera work and editing however my
weakness was music because i think a lot of people used the same song so it got boring after
having to listen to the same music over and over again. Sound and special effects were also
a weakness because i didn't really use any. I agree with my improvement comments
because the acting wasn't the greatest because we used different people which didn't help;
i should of used/found my own music so it didn't get boring after a while.