Tuesday 23 November 2010

"Think You Know The Police?" ("Home" Viral Teaser, The Completion Of 'A' Shift Scripts and End Of The Year)

The be-all, end-all of this last portion of the November month, we've been busy... Very busy.

"Home", the first in a series of viral adverts to be shot for the series, was completed over the weekend awaiting some eventual tweaks. The image is a teaser for the eventual published release of the trailer, hopefully come start-December. By this point, we are hoping to move onto one other viral entitled "Club", stylisitcally similar (dark visuals, dynamic flowing camera-work) but importantly, including what we would refer to as our 'considered' final cast.


The whole series, our tag as it were refers to "Think You Know The Police?". With cop drama in general, the focus within the genre has been to concentrate on the job; what it's like to be a cop. Our focus subverst that common conception by looking at 'real' people who are cops. I think as a tag, it's a big slap in the face; like what you know thus far does not tell the whole picture.

What we want, is to invite you to see more of the picture, whilst maintaining a profound sense of realism matched with a dramatic sense generated from the realism.

The Job: 'A' Shift, the initial first series, is looking at a completion within the script stage, for end of the year; to follow a series of workshops with the principal writing team, and our producer and myself as director going through each of the episodes to get the best possible drafts we can muster. I reckon this is a process, very much like our initial read-through from the feature draft of the script, that will highly enjoyable.

Now that time remains short and the end of the year approaches, we've decided to bat out as much footage for The Job as physically and as mentally possible for us.

The time for us to do this now and with as much attention as we've had since we started this project 18 months ago, this could slowly be the time, with every single one of us involved, to make some daring and important decisions.

Certainly, from my own point of view, the time is now to prove what we all have to offer and thus far, it's looking pretty tremendous.

Thanks and keep showing your support.

Ryan Jon Amey Henderson
Co-Creator/Co-writer

Wednesday 17 November 2010

"I'm sure if I wanna' go, I'll find the door, cheers" (Development Hits It's First Year, The First Internet Viral and the Completion of Ep's 3 & 4)

The first new update in a while but well worth at this stage, some sort of clarification and excitement.

The Job has been going through a very real moment of drive. Before, we could always be comfortable in the fact that we were working to our own deadlines which never seemed to be a massive problemhowever, with a certain deadline looming, now has been the test of whether or not we can do this, organise it within a small period of time and have something that had a clarity and professionalism of an established production company.

Since the announcement that we would only have till the the 22nd to complete the first internet viral, Home, the week has been complete madness. The initial comfort in knowing that we would come out of this week with a final moving, emotional portrait that illustrates the essence of what The Job is created a massive buzz within the group. A real sense of excitement that things are moving forward. Obviously, once we've completed the advert, you'll be able to find the link to it once we feel it's ready for the dispersion into the cyberspace.

This is more so it doesn't get lost and is able to pinpoint an audience. Our research has always pointed towards a market for this kind of programming, a real interest in genuine drama; real characters, real worlds and a focus on an aspect of cop life we have never seen before. Audience is everything with TV, as with film also, but without a tapped audience. In specifics, a target audience that can catapult this drama, be interested in thisa drama and want to see this drama.

We have been following the Channel 4 documentary series Coppers. A perfect template that tells more about "the job" and the people who have to deal with it everyday than 100 hours of conversations of back stories. It illustrates perfectly, the attitude, the people, the humanistic aspects and the very essence of what we started over a year ago, yet set in Scotland. What we want to see is what happens when they get home, how their relationships are affected and what they become when they are, essentially, off duty. That is what The Job does.

So, we have the viral coming up end of this week, the completion of the final two episodes before the end of the year and whatever else we have in the pipeline before anything else changes really.

It's all very exciting. I hope you like what we're doing.



Ryan Jon Amey Henderson
Co-Creator/Co-writer