TRANSITIONS UNIT: CHOSEN ADAPTATION AND TEAM

I've now gotten into a team for Transitions Unit.

Myself - I'm the Director of Photography. I've chosen this role due to my love of cameras and I've tried to learn as much as possible in the camera and lighting department. I took on the role of DOP seriously with my Fictional Adaptation unit where I made my film 'Ribbons' in regards to the style of shooting and the choice of lighting.

Victoria Simmonds - She is our Producer. Victoria has a keen interest in both research and is very detailed with paperwork. She was the Assistant Producer for our Studio Production 'Steal the Style' and has helped with researching and developing a documentary with one of our tutors through the course. Victoria is also involved with Producing a video outside of the course.

Jemma Simmonds - Jemma is our Editor. Jemma has always expressed a love for editing and has edited all her own projects. She's never had a chance to focus on the role specifically and has often had to double up on a role. She's currently involved in a music video I am developing and coming onboard as the Editor for that as well.

This is our entire crew which does leave us with a slight issue... we have no Director.

As the rest of the students in our year have already gotten into groups, we found that no one was left who wanted to take on the role of Director. Speaking with our Tutor Simon, we asked how we could go about doing this unit without one. He explained that we could go forward and recreate a scene from something, as long as there was very little Direction required in the scene. Meaning we can't do anything over the top and experimental. We would require a scene with simple dialogue and movements for the actors so that one of us could do basic Directing but not stepping out of our chosen role.

Chosen Adaptation
When discussing what we wanted to recreate. We agreed we wanted something current and popular but we would also require something with only 1 or 2 characters as to keep it simple and require little Direction. I wanted something which could challenge me, cinematography wise. With this, we finally chose to recreate a very popular TV Show. Jessica Jones. This programme is about a Private Investigator who has super powers due to an accident when she was younger.

The Programme is set in the Marvel Cinematic Universe and runs alongside the other 4 hero series; Daredevil, The Punisher, Luke Cage and Iron Fist. Jessica is an alcoholic and quite broken woman due to the villain 'Killgrave'. A lot of the scenes in Jessica Jones will be her alone or her and her friend Malcolm. With the release of Season 2, only recently coming out, we thought this would be ideal. The cinematography through this programme I've always loved. Very nitty, gritty and handheld film making with very dark lighting to bring out the darkness of the characters and to work with the locations.