Mid Point Review

I have visited the Crime Museum Uncovered where I learned about the history of crime and popular crimes such as the Millennium Dome Heist and Great Train Robbery and how the criminals were caught - my interest in crime was sparked when I sat on a jury for a high profile robbery case. At the museum I found out about how criminals and their activity was recorded, I learned about the process of court room sketches; also the process detectives go through in order to solve a crime. I believe it gave me an insight on the 'right' side of the law. I watched numerous films and read numerous books that contrasted with this, they gave me more an insight on the criminal's perspective of the crimes and their reasoning why, for example Charlie Seiga's book Killer - his family was involved in crime, so he was exposed to it at a young age, Seiga says that he saw his older brothers with 'flash gear' and decided he also wanted that life. The questionnaires we conducted gave an insight to what our peers thought about crime, it also showed us how naive and brainwashed by the media some of our audience can be. We interviewed a 'Copper' about how the criminal justice system works and his views on them, which was interesting to get an opinion on the 'right' side of the law without any pressure, and the similarities to how we felt about the same issues was refreshing and helped us solidify our ideas. We also conducted interviews on each other which helped with learning about each other's experiences with crime and our opinions on crime and using it to our advantage and again solidifying ideas for our project. As a group, we have decided to create a short film with two characters reflecting how we feel about crime and when we think it is acceptable for our moral compasses to change, we want to keep it as a domestic issue. We need to finish our production planning and then go into shoot and post production, we also need to finish our advertising campaign. Our project is about finding our limit of our own moral compass in terms of theft.