Directors Statement - Prisoners (DIRECTIONS UNIT)

Directors Statement - “Prisoners” 

Synopsis: Prisoners is story about lost, family and guilt. The plot is about two young girls that gets abducted and the families who are related to the two girls, predict that they were kidnapped by a young guy named Alex Jones and who owns a creepy and dirty RV, and Jones himself has an IQ of a ten year old. Keller Dover (the father of one the girls), goes to kidnap Alex Jones and starts to interrogate and torture Jones about the two missing girls, and which turns Keller into a broken, dangerous and violent character. Blaming himself all the time that he is not rescuing, finding and being their for his daughter. Loki a Detective, starts to investigate the case of the two missing girls and goes into a puzzled, confusing and personal case about the two missing girls, the history of  certain and investigated families, and why it’s a much more complicated case then he’s anticipated.  

The Vision Genre/Tone: The genre of the plot is a crime, drama, mystery and even a psychological thriller. It’s a tone that will make the audiences feel afraid of what some of the characters can and will do, to go into more in depth of where the plot will take them, and in some of the most unpredictable and brutalist circumstances events to come. It is also a plot that has a very relevant and horrifying experience that has happened, to human beings about a family member being lost, gone missing and not knowing how the horrifying experience will have a good ending or not at all. It’s a journey to the unknown and a constant thought that certain characters will think and make tough decisions of how far will they go up until the end. 

Demographic: This film is aimed at the majority of adults only. Considering though it has a theme about family very specifically and importantly, about the plot of two young girls going missing, Keller Dover as a father and husband trying to do his job, thinking he is not being a father, and the film can also be aimed at individuals with problems for their emotional wellbeing. For example the character Alex Jones has an IQ of a ten year old child, and the way the character gets treated by others and being brought up in the world he is living in, and that can be a common problem for some individuals in the real world have this type of important issue mentally. The film can also be aimed at individuals who has experienced a terrifying moment about a family member being kidnapped, or may have been in absence to their closet ones and the consequences it can occur friends and family members mentally and emotionally. 

Locations: The film will be shot around very close locations near together. It shall firstly begin at a house, which is the families house, and where the two main characters Keller Dover and Detective Loki first meet about the disappearance of the investigation of Keller’s daughter. Starting from the bathroom, the living room and the front of the house where Loki leaves the premises. The filming inside and outside the front of the house shall be set during the daytime. To continue and conclude the filming, their will be a location around a public footpath near a park named Broom Hill Park. This location will be used for Keller Dover following and kidnapping Alex Jones. Going from Alex Jones leaving his RV, walking on a pathway to a public footpath with Keller following him, and finally Keller about to kidnap Jones at a narrow, public footpath by the outskirts of Broom Hill Park. The final locations shall be set in the nighttime. 

A view of Broom Hill Park 

A public footpath from the top 

A public footpath from the bottom 

Front gate of the house (backwards 

Front gate of the house (front) 

The bathroom 

The bathroom

The living room

The living room 

Cast: This film will have four actors, the first and main character will be Fraser Carter as Keller Dover, Fraser has been acting in two of my previous short film projects, and always feels enthusiastic to portray as any acting role. My second actor is Lawrence Sedgwick as the character Detective Loki. Lawrence is a very qualified filmmaker and is also a graduate student in the TV Production course. Lawrence has also has quite a long term in acting in the past and is always energetic in the production process. The third actor is Reena Dusila, Reena is based very near around the locations and is known very well as a professional actor and wants to be given some more acting experience and is very much looking forward to be playing as Grace Dover. The fourth and final actor is Josh White as Alex Jones, this will be the first time I am going to experience Josh as an acting role, however having acting experience when he was at school, having quite a lot of interest in drama, and I personally felt and saw in Josh that he has a great look as Alex Jones. I have faith and hope that all of the four individuals will portray as the characters, I am feeling positive that they shall work and get along together professionally.

Fraser Carter as Keller Dover 

Lawrence Sedgwick as Loki 

Josh White as Alex Jones 

Reena Dusila as Grace Dover 

Crew: The crew of the production will have three members. Myself as the director and producer, George Larman as the director of photography, I have worked with George on many small workshops projects and on other individuals short films. However this shall be the first time George will be participating for one of my short films and I am sure he will capture some excellent shots. My third crew member will be Ethan Perry as the sound technician and he will also be supporting with me on the lighting equipment. Just as the same with George, this will be the very first time Ethan will also be participating for one my short films, and I am looking forward to having both George and Ethan as refreshing visual minds, taste, and for the filmmaking process on the project of Prisoners.