Pre-Production: Idea Development

"Technology is challenging the old ways of doing things, while governments are struggling to keep up with the pace of change. In particular, justice systems, which are known for being sluggish and bureaucratic, will need to adapt to keep their legitimacy in the eyes of today’s connected citizens who are empowered by the wealth of online information at their fingertips."

After speaking to Beth today myself and Jack knew this idea needed to change in some way. It wasn't an easy decision to make and isn't something we did lightly. However, developing ideas is all part of the process. Thanks to the solid amount of research that had taken place we had an idea of what other avenues we could take. We know that Liam plays a solid role in this documentary and that's something me and Jack wanted to keep. His story helps us kick start he piece as almost our way in. Having any other random presenter from mandy.com simply wouldn't be as effective as having someone who has suffered being falsely accused first hand, and has taken two years of their life.

The direction we wanted to take now was to do with the police force. We know there are so many cases where lack of police competence has led to people being charged guilty or trials even delayed. 
“Police and prosecution lawyers fail to correctly disclose evidence in nearly half of cases”.  (Watchdog, 2018) 

The Plan:

Liam Leads documentary and dives into genuine rape victims and people who have been done for fraud and other cases where the police have been incompetent. He goes into people falsely accused of stuff and also the polices incompetence. How their names tarnished and lives affected (struggle with trust and relationships).


Liam speaks to:

A criminal lawyer who has views on police evidence disclosure?

A victim whose case didn’t make it to trial?

Someone falsely accuses and case prolonged or went to prison when innocent?


A digital footprint is a way the police can now catch people but also proving their innocence. It's something so easily accessible especially by the police so why is it they and prosecutors seem so incapable of bringing this to court?

D&A and Swabs at a crime scene 100% guarantees a persons guilt or innocence but with digital footprint how reliable is that? How can you prove X sent that to Y.

The next step for me and jack is to further our project by finding these contributors and organizing it in a timeline order. We definitely don't want it to be as linear as this but it will give us the certainty of access. Access is one of the most tricky elements to this projector, in fact, most documentaries so we need to obviously be well organized and have everything planned in advance. Our bigger contributor is sorted and I feel we are half way there which is good for where we should be at this current point in time.






Reference:

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2018/07/12/policeand-prosecution-lawyers-fail-correctly-disclose-evidence/


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