Jack the Ripper Pitch

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Jack The RipperYoujve Heard The Legend

Now Face The Truth


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IdeaOur idea, is to document the truth behind the story of Jack

The Ripper, and separate the truth from the fairytale.

This will include interviews with historians who are expertson the matter, reconstructions, notes on commonmisconceptions and telling the realstory, as well asdisambiguation and myths that spread by word of mouth.

We shall analyse the evidence and see what is fact andwhat is fiction. The whole reason of our documentary willbe to see if we could even solve the mystery once andfor all.

a film or TV program presenting the facts about a person or event


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The Oxford Dictionary Definition of a

Documentary is; A film or TV program

presenting the facts about a person or event.

Documentaries, like every programme televised to

the general public may have specific goals or

objectives to reach and give to the audience.However every TV programme has the same

aim. To make the production company money.

The more people watch their channel or

programme the more money the productioncompany gets, so for the Documentary to be a

success we will need to attract a lot of watchers.


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Howwe plan on attracting a lot of

watchers.Appealing to a wider target audienceGiving new information or results, to capture an audience attention

through their curiosity.

By making the documentary very entertaining and visually interesting

By making the documentary dramatic compared to standard TVdocumentaries. This can be achieved by giving the piece a darktwist and mimicking the cinematography and techniques used inmodern cinema. Contempory examples include Spiderman 3 andBatman The Dark Knight. These films have incorporated a darktwist in their squealed films in order to try and add drama to the filmto set it apart from the previous films. As we must do with ourselvesan other documentaries.

In short, by giving or adding something to the documentary that sets itapart from others, a factor that makes our documentary so muchmore interesting, new and exciting than any other in order to make itso much more appealing to our potential audience.


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Technical aspects:

Principal Camera ShotsLow angle shots ominous and threatening

Extreme high angle 50-55 (if possible) view

Over the shoulder shots interview situations

Hyper-zoom move forwards, zoom out to give a niceeffect of the world moving around a stationary character

Tracking shot (backwards) equidistant from subject as ittracks backwards down the road


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Technical aspects:

EditingWe may need to add some effects such as darkening the

re-enactment scene or putting filters onto it such assaturation or black and white to emphasise the point thatthe re-enactment is set in the past.

We will also need to pay close attention to cuts anddifferent styles of cuts as the transition between shots inour documentary will be very important to ensure ouraudience can follow it easily and to ensure anentertaining programme too.

Other editing factors we may need to talk into account will

include incorporating any non-diagetic sound as well asnon-diagetic music. These could include sound effectsas well as tense music for different intended purposesthroughout the documentary.


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Technical aspects:

Mise-en-sceneThis will include every aspect of our reconstruction as

well as a lot of planning with present and past locationsettings.

When thinking about Mise en scene for our documentarywe will need to plan and consider these aspects:

Costumes

Locations

Props

Housing and background imagery (will be major part oflocation setting)

Background noises


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Technical aspects:

LocationFor our locations we have looked into some of present day

locations to film commentary about the murders thathappened about 200 years ago.

For our reconstruction however we are going to need aplace that will look authentic to the time period of 1888.These places will have to include every aspect of 1888street and no sign of any object or person that could berelated to modern day.

This could prove to be very complicated and difficult as

there are very few places still about today that will meetsuch a criteria.

Some of the places we did find though include:


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Technical aspects:

Location (cont.) Left and FarLeft:These two locations

are both in the

same area which is

very useful,

Camden lock, notfar from us.

Left:

Apparently

this is a

street in

London

not far

from

Waterloo

station

Left: And

the

only othe

vaguely

near

street is

this one

in York.


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Technical aspects:

Facts ToIncludeThe text will hopefully remain factual throughout,

but wherever needed, we shall createinformation as close to the truth as we canimagine it being.

We shall make reference to:

Names of Victims

Location of Murders

Evidence Found


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Technical aspects:

Any Complications?Finding a location in which we can use that will be

a true representation of the time period of Jack

The Ripper when we are filming our

reconstruction.

When weve found the location we want to use too

use we will also need to be able to keep it

available only to us while we are filming, so we

dont have any one interrupting us during filmingand ruining the scene.


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