Contradiction: Synopsis

Approximately ten years ago, a series of family murders occurred in Cambridgeshire and with each murder there would always be one survivor, Maria Jones, an excellent high profile Detective "solved" the case and the "killer" Mason Carter was arrested. After ten years of Mason Carter's imprisonment, a family murder takes place in Cambridgeshire that is identical to the ones from ten years ago with one survivor remaining, a 17 year old Kayleigh Phillips. The case is reopened by Detective Jones and she must retrace her steps and go back to square one as there is a series of questions that are still unanswered, "Did she imprison the wrong man?, was there more than one killer? Or is this just a copycat killer inspired by Mason Carter?"

On the day of the crime scene investigation of the Phillips family murder, a young rookie Journalist Peter Stone arrives in the hopes of finding a good story and there he meets Detective Jones. Jones and Stone realise they both need each others help in order to get what they both want; Peter wants a good story to initiate his early career in Journalism and Detective Jones needs a fresh pair of eyes on the case alongside her and someone who can write a good enough story to maintain her glowing resume and her career. The duo reluctantly work together as they clash due to their headstrong, intelligent and independent personalities. Detective Jones is intimidated by Peter as she fears he will solve the case before she does, and prefers to work alone and take all the glory as she is quite selfish and insensitive. Jones only wants to solve the case for her own personal gain, not to prevent the loss of other lives. On the other hand, Peter actually wants to help others and close the case to protect the innocent, but in the process becomes too involved in the case and is consumed by the harsh and dangerous reality of the world of crime.

 Peter soon figures out on his own that he knows who the killer are going to murder next and tries alert Detective Jones, but she dismisses his claims as she thinks he's just a young and oblivious boy, so the duo begin to fall apart and their trust breaks down. Peter goes to the next house of the killers target and arrives to try and save them, but the killer calls Detective Jones to send a warning that her time is running out and that her career will be destroyed if the killer isn't caught this time round.

Interviews 1 & 2: Jo Caress and Alissa King-Underwood

Interview 3: Oliver Wyatt

Interview 4: Kirsten Stephens, Millie Caress and Sammy Stroud

Risk Assessment

Soundtrack and sound effects

Finding a non copyright sound track has proven to be quite difficult; there's such a wide variety to choose from, you begin searching with a fixed idea in your mind of how you want the music to sound and you have to find approximately three different tracks for the beginning middle and end of the trailer.

At first we wanted to take inspiration from The girl on the train trailer soundtrack but it had lyrics in the song and we struggled to find a modern track like that, but we did use the idea of including a piano track early on in the trailer called Letting go. However, we felt that this track didn't suit the genre and tone of the trailer and so we changed the middle and end tracks to Chaos and Death Match; they're slightly more edgy as Chaos creates the same uncomfortable atmosphere as the intro music to SE7EN and Death Match has just electric guitar in it like one of the trailer tracks in Nightcrawler. We have another track called Echoes of time which is used at the every beginning when it starts of quiet and slow, we did have another track called Extinction level event but it was to fast paced and we felt that it fit an action film more than a crime thriller. For a climax we want to have a clock ticking sound effect so every fast paced shot will be in sync with the ticking effect to suggest that time is ticking so the synchronous sound will increase in speed so the ending is more action packed, builds tension and captivates the audiences attention. When we play the recording of the serial killers phone call with the detective he says at the end "time is ticking, tick tock tick tock..." and so as this continues we'll fade it out into the ticking sound effect.

We have also sourced lots of sound effects that we plan to use such as a car screeching, thunder roll, thunder clap, overlapping talking (crowd of press and reporters), boom sound, police sirens, telephone ring, camera click, gun shot and ticking clock to name but a few. We have these saved on premier pro in the hope that having these sound effects will make our trailer sound realistic, like a real Hollywood trailer and that some of the sounds will tick the boxes of crime thriller conventions but also add more texture the all the sounds in the trailer as they go in hand with the dialogue and soundtrack and compliment one another.

Chaos
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hR_E6TOpR70&index=23&list=PLNGeXmfZiEFv7eYqT1ZhzfSokaxxelkuj

Death Match
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FvNlvtvJdBo

Letting go
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3MIDmPMlbcg

Echoes of time
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s6T4WtembgE

Extinction level event
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mNFNOEi9QV4