Thursday + Friday 17/18 January

On these days we completed our opening and front cover.

We finished the contrast of the shots, although the 3 shots were the girl puts her shoe on were incredibly overexposed and we spent ages on them but unfortunately were unable to match them to the rest.

We also re-recorded our news broadcast for the end as it wasn't long enough and it needed to fit throughout the last pan. So although it detracts a little from the creepy-ness of his wall of girls it would be stranger if it suddenly faded up during the pan as if our villain had miraculously just tuned into the news report about himself.

We also took our cover shots:


We decided this shot looked a little strange because of his facial expression and also because of the fire bucket.

This photo is too blurry, but although we liked the composition all the others which were clear had a big red fire extinguisher in the background

W decided to use this image (put onto a Polaroid outline) because its very striking and it shows he sort of leads a double life and that there are lots of secrets.

We had 3 possible ideas for our title which were 'The Butcher', 'The Anaesthetist' and 'The Silencer' but in the end we went with 'The Anaesthetis't and a generally more medical and methodical killing style for our villain.

Alix

Wednesday 16th January

Today we completed the majority of the back cover and did a good rough draft of our blurb:

In Strikeout Pictures’ latest production, yet again, we are not disappointed. Nominated for ‘best picture’, it follows an epic story of voyeurism, obsession and kidnap. Unbeknown to Naomi Lawson (Sian Williams) she is about to be the latest fixation of ‘The Anaesthetist’ (Nicholas Green) – a serial killer from North London with an intoxication with white silk, a scientist’s knowledge of euthanasia techniques and passion for autopsy.

But will Naomi prove too much for him?


We also recorded our news report which was too short at first but this is the final script:

And the intensive search continues for the 17 year old girl who went missing late last Saturday night from Oakwood in North London. She is 5 ft 7 with blue eyes and dark blonde hair.
The police fear that Amy Williams is yet another victim of the killer whom the tabloids have named ‘the anaesthetist’ due to the substances found in his previous victims’ bodies.
They are strongly advising any young females in the area not to travel alone whenever possible. The police believe that he (trails off)





We also changed the idea for our front cover, we are going to have a photo similar to the one below (but obviously of our main actor) because we feel having girls tied up in white dresses is a little too repetitive.

Matt

Tuesday 15th December

We think that we have nearly completed finished our opening, minor adjustments such as fine tuning the contrast, and editing to the music more we will do if we have time.

Today we decided on a definite rough plan for our cover:


We also decided that our final pan needed some sort ofd sound, so we decided to have a news report playing in the background as if our villain is listening to the radio, here is a rough first draught of it:

'And the search continues for the young girl who went missing from north london last saturday. The police fear that Amy Willis (this is where he is crossing 'Amy' out) is the latest victim of [insert villain's nickname here]. (Then as we pan to the new girl it says) The police warn any females in the area to not travel alone. (Then it starts to fade out on:) They believe that...

We have decided that the villain is going to have a nickname - as in the sort the press would give him for example 'Jack the Ripper' - i think that it should be related to the drugs somehow for example 'the anesthetist', and his nickname will almost also be the title.

Alix