West Yorkshire Police Project ...Continued

Shoot 3 - Shopping Channel
My Role - Camera Operator

In this film we have a burglar appear on a TV channel for thieves, he has a short chat with the presenter and tries to give an insight into the world of thievery. What we wanted to do was create a tongue in cheek warning to people about being careful with their personal belongings.

Firstly I was given the task to write a short script with a fellow student. We absorbed a good few hours of shopping channel footage online then had a crack at writing a shopping channel scenario ourselves. It took just one afternoon to get a script together that we felt brought up the points about personal safety quickly without it coming across as forced or false.

Here it is -

Shopping Channel Advert

Presenter (Keith) - So Rob, what have you got for us today?

Rob - Well Keith we’ve got this amazing new book, it’s the next chapter in our ‘How To’ series. This week it’s ‘How To Steal Mobile Phones’.

Keith - What can you tell us, in particular, about the book?

Rob - Well, I’ve learned a lot of interesting techniques and helpful tips. In fact I’m going to share a few here today.

Keith - Fantastic!

Rob - Well these phones nowadays light up like its christmas, you can see them a mile away. People are always so caught up in their conversations they’ll never see you coming. You could swipe it and be off in seconds.

Keith - Well how about that... What else have you got?

Rob - Here’s a nice tip for you, even if they haven't got the phone on them they are so lightweight you could flick it out of a pocket and the poor sod wouldn't even know about it.

Keith - And then once you’ve actually got the phone surely you could gain access to peoples personal information?

Rob - Of course keith. Most people don't bother with all that security nonsense. We’d get access to Facebook, Twitter and possibly any Amazon accounts. And on the odd day you might even find some bank details.

Keith - Well this book does sound like a delightful read. I’ll have to steal one myself. Join us after the break and we’ll be taking a look at possible ways of breaking into your neighbor's shed. Don’t go away!  

What we then needed was a front cover for the 'How To...' book. Thankfully I have a friend in graphic design and she gladly handed over her skills and created a really cool cover for us as well as a logo for the shopping channel.

Here they are -

I'd like to think these little extra details can give the finished product a little extra quality and shows that we are serious about what we want to achieve.

The shoot itself was largely uneventful, I just had more practice on camera and it gave me a chance to keep working with a crew I really enjoyed working with.