A Crime In The Dead Of Night

Here are the final images that I have chosen to use for my circular narrative sequence, I chose to re shoot the image that I was given of the Exit sign, mostly because it didn't really fit within my sequence due to the type of exit sign that I have within my image, and also because I wanted to make the sequence more of my own from start to finish!

As I am not making my sequence into a video, this is how I would want them to be displayed,

quite simply in a row along a wall, taking you on a journey from image to image until you complete the full circle at the end!

Design layout ideas...

I have been thinking about different ways that I could display my work as I am not making my photographs into a video, here are some of the different ways i have come up with shown in a few quick sketches I have done,

A Crime In The Dead of Night - shoot.

So the other night I went out an took some more photographs for my circular narrative piece.

I changed the location from the one used in the last shoot, to somewhere a lot darker and sinister, so it looked like someone has innocently parked their car in a quiet area, unknowing that someone would take full advantage of how quiet the area is and proceed in stealing their car.

I took quite a lot of images exploring each stage of the narrative, to ensure that I was able to get some good quality images that were suitable and were able to get across exactly what I was thinking when I set up the scene as I need the viewer to be able to see my intentions, without and explanation.

Images - Contact Sheets.

Here are five contact sheets showing the photographs that I took during this shoot,

Tonights shoot....

so tonight I am going out to re shoot everything, I have changed the location to somewhere that is darker and a bit more shifty, creating a stronger link with what is going to be going on within my images as it is a robbery, and having it take place somewhere quieter and darker with it being less noticeable will make the whole thing make more sense.

Hopefully I will get some good photographs from this shoot, some being what I can use for my final sequence.

thoughts....

I have been thinking about different way i could make my narrative seem a little more interesting, in respect to the things i mentioned in the previous post.

I have re thought the stages of the sequence, by adding in a few new ideas i feel that it will become stronger in respect to showing a full circular narrative, helping the audience to make more sense of it and making it easier for them to understand it.

I did a really quick sketch of each stage of the sequence which i have scanned in and shown here;

Explaining the different stages of the sequence a little bit, basically the sequence will start with the exit sign, the next frame will be of the person who has stolen car number 1 walking away from the car towards the multi-storey car park' exit. The next frame will be a view of them walking out the car park on the the road and out into the open, unnoticed by anyone for the crime that has been committed. With the next frame following on from that being a close up of the persons face, looking rather pleased with them self and happy to be walking away and ready for round 2. This will lead on the an image of the person walking towards another car in the area, having looked around to find what looks easily accessible, with the next fame being of the actually breaking into the car, when they will then get in and drive away down the road having successfully gained access and started the engine. The next frame will be of the second car being taken into a multi-storey car park, the same one as before as it is like his little place of hiding these cars for the day, until he eventually gets caught. The frame after that will be of him them dumping and walking away from car number 2 towards the exit like at the start of the sequence and then it links back round to the exit sign, completing the circular narrative.


Having received permission to go ahead and photograph in a multi-storey car park I am going to go out and shoot the whole sequence this weekend, I am hopeful that I am able to get some good photographs that show exactly what I am thinking in me head.

Today we had a feedback session, from this I got that I need to revise my idea a little bit and figure out what works best, experimenting with point of view, the amount of zoom used to capture the image, the lighting, people, other surroundings.

Now that I have permission to photograph on a specific multi-storey car park I know that I can go ahead and complete my sequence, but as well as this sequence i want to try a different approach at the same time, following a different type of narrative.

An idea for this is to change the concept and create a sequence showing a prank, such as one person parking their car in a specific place and then their mate going and moving it to another space/area within the car park, playing a prank on them, but one that worries and panics the car owner.

I have quite a bit to think about so over a day or so i'm going to brainstorm and come up with new ideas of places and areas that I can shoot as well as what I want these images to look like.

Initial images

Last night I went our and took some of the initial images for my narrative sequence, at this point I have only captured initial images for the first half of my narrative, which are shown here

Contact sheet:

Chosen images,

I want to get some feedback on these images first to see if they are working well enough to be part of this sequence before I go and capture the second half of the sequence. I already know some of the images don't work as good as others, such as the close ups in the car as they went blurry as it was hard to focus due to the light, so I either need to go back and re shoot them trying to mess with the focus so its clear or just scrap that idea completely and re think the order of the sequence. Also a couple of the images are very similar as I have not yet decided which ones work best.