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After several meetings with Simon, giving us feedback on our project one of his biggest concerns was that we forget about liam. And since saying this, I agreed. However, in practice in the actual edit itself it just didnt work. Below is an exported version of this different structure which myslef and Jack spent a couple of days on. However, after watching back it becomes too confusing as we are always jumping from one person to the other.Whilst it works at the beginning from Eddie to Liam it then gradually loses it because the sequence is re-ordered the rest of it loses its flow. The best structure for this documentary in our opinion is to introduce Jan then Liam and then Eddie. From Eddie what he says links very well to what the DNA expert says and it spirals from there. The audience bcome engaged with the Eddies story, and then Jan goes through what went wrong in Jordans trial and then then same again for liam. Breaking from these stories whilst being engaged with them takes away fro...

Everyone has the right to a fair trial, but just how fair is Britain's judicial system? Assumed Guilty is an investigative documentary, exploring the flaws in Britains Judicial system, speaking to those who have suffered the most. The documentary will have a through line of experts discussing the pressing issues and detailing what the contributors talk about. The beginning will introduce each of the people, the middle will include where their trial went wrong and the psychological/mental health impact and will end at the Innovation of Justice conference where all of our contributors are brought together. Assumed Guilty investigates why three different cases which all eventually become similar in more ways than one. Cases include errors where crucial evidence has not been investigated by the police, or even brought to the attention of the prosecution. All rape prosecutions are now being reviewed after the collapse of trials like Liam Allans. There are too many cases where discl...

Afte rfinalising some of the last stages of this documentary, Jack and I wanted to see how far we could take it in making it a success. Jerry hayes, who we interviewed for our documentary put us in touch with Garath Neame. "Gareth Neame is a Golden Globe and Emmy Award winning drama producer and executive, based in London. Neame is Executive Chairman of Carnival Films, the production company he sold to NBC Universal in 2008 as the cornerstone of their new international TV studio. Neame is one of the UK’s leading producers and is responsible for the global TV phenomenon Downton Abbey, winner of three Golden Globes, including Best Mini Series and fifteen Primetime Emmy Awards, including Best Mini Series. With a total of 69 nominations, it is the most nominated non-US show in the history of the Emmys and probably Britain’s most successful scripted television export. Among numerous national and international awards, including three Screen Actors Guild Awards – the show has even garne...

As established in our Pre-Production Unit, social media is findimental in this day and age with regards to promotion and branding. Whislt branding hasnt been the biggest focus of this uni, it has been a concisten underlying theme which has impacted the website, social media, the poster and of course the final edit and the way it is color graded etc. Since the title of our documentary has changed along wiht the posters etc. I wanted to give our page a major update. This mean clearing everything previously and developing into what it is today. The purpose of social media was to also post updates of the edit suite and also behind the scenes filming to give the audience a teaser of what is currently being produced in production; a process audiences rarely get the opportunity to see. This reached over 600 people meanign that it was a fantastic platform to begin promoting our documentary. After sharing it and some other peopel sharing too it raised a lot more attention than pre...

From researching cameras to find out what we were going to shoot on I also needed to establish how it would work out in the edit. And that is where this indepth level of research came from; as DoP and Editor I wanted to shoot to edit and this is something I strived for from the beginning Pre-Production Unit. Somehting this research has taught me is that resolution doesn't matter; it is in many ways a myth. It is very difficult to explain but the video below should help explain it better. Such videos and books were my way of research and I found it explained simply was the best way to understand it. There are Arri cameras that only shoot in HD that are far more expensive than cameras form companies like RED that shoot in 8K. But the reason companies like Arri are so successful is because of their color science more than the resolution. Technically 4k as described in Netflix's requirements is technically only 2.5K because there are gaps in the pixels. For example, a lot of mobile...