How do you get this type of blue sunlight cinematography?

[Brian Drysdale]

Would there be a court hearing the next day if she hasn't wanted to proceed with her allegations of rape until this point?

[Ryan Elder]

Yes they were still going to go ahead without her but the police wanted to find her before the hearing and get her to do an additional statement and try to persuade her into getting more involved if they could. At least that is how I wrote it so far. If it comes off as too heartless for the main character to keep her waiting while they talk, I could have him just say to the prosecutor "We shouldn't keep her waiting, what would you like to do"? If something like that would help?

[Brian Drysdale]

It sounds like it needs more work on your part..

[Ryan Elder]

Oh okay thanks. Is there anything you were thinking of specifically, besides the dialogue?

[Brian Drysdale]

I would do some research on how rape cases are handled.

[Ryan Elder]

Oh well in my research, normally in those kinds of interview with a female victim, they want a female interviewer and since the prosecutor and the main character are both male, so far I wrote it so that they sit outside and wait for a female interviewer to be done, and then go over the new developments in the interview after. If that is a good way to write, according to the research.

Or I could go by the Kubrick notion, that it may be realistic but is it interesting, and just have the main character and prosecutor in their as well.

[Paul R Johnson]

Are you trying to follow investigative practice or wrote a movie script? You don't seem to understand very much about the way rape is dealt with, and being such a personal subject, not being female makes writing this something that is probably just not going to work. Rape counselling and criminal investigation of rape is a very sensitive and quite controlled process. It's common for them to use special suites in the building with softer lighting, comfy chairs and trained female (or even male personnel in certain cases) to do the talking. Other officers may or may not view the interviews live via cameras, and probably they will be recorded. Your story doesn't seem to follow procedure, and these kinds of errors will really annoy people if you get it wrong in process, or in attitude. I think we told you before this part of your script is very, very difficult to manage. Get it wrong and you will offend, trivialise, compartmentalise, judge and divide your audience without VERY great care. I don't think I could write a scene like this without a huge amount of help from specialists.

Your script is going back to where we were last year isn't it? We tried to talk you around then, and we've just closed the circle and started again.

[Ryan Elder]

Oh okay, but I wrote the scene so that it takes place in such a room. I already wrote it the way you described, which is one of the reasons I wrote it so that the prosecutor was not in the room. Did I not write it that way, or did I do something different? I already wrote it so a femaly interviewer does the talking, but it was suggested to me before to bring in the prosecutor to make the scene more convenient, if I should? Plus I took the advice given before about the script and made changes and improvements that were recommended to me before.

[Paul R Johnson]

I’m not sure if we have an equivalent in our system? I’m lost. Who in your system is the prosecutor. A lawyer? In our system the police prosecute, linked to our CPS system, but the legal people for prosecution and defence only get a voice in court, they don’t join in work to investigate or interrogate.

[Brian Drysdale]

Being in the building watching a video feed, isn't the same as the prosecutor being in the room. I assume the policeman also isn't in the interview room, if that's the case they could be sitting together discussing the interview as they view the live video feed in the police station. This would also allow them working together to be established. .

Or, the prosecutor could be in their office talking to the policeman in the police station, as they both view a live video feed interview. As Paul mentioned, they could be using an encrypted feed, so we don't need to go around in circles about that. They could talk over the phone as they watch.

You didn't provide the full picture earlier, you called the person a witness, instead they are the rape victim. Providing incomplete information means that you can easily get conflicting or wrong information back.

Ryan's arrangement sounds like the French one or an assistant district attorney in the USA.

[Ryan Elder]

Oh okay thanks. Sorry for not getting more into it. I didn't think the prosecutor could watch it live, but I can write it that way, if they can. One movie where the prosecutor watches the recording after, the fact was Wild Things (1998), but perhaps that's because it's in the 90s, compared to now?

Also, what do you mean when you say 'the French one'? That French TV show, recommended before? They would have to wait till the video is over before discussing the bulk of it though, which means they would still have to keep her waiting though, but if I write that the main character does not want to keep her waiting, is that better?

[Brian Drysdale]

It's the French legal system. There;a a link above that explains the role of an investigating magistrate.

Watching a live feed is the easy way out.

[Ryan Elder]

Oh okay, and by easy way out, you mean lazy way out, writing wise?

[Brian Drysdale]

No, given what you want to achieve it's the easiest way of doing this.

[Ryan Elder]

Oh okay. I just that the live feed would be more work in the sense that I need to shoot the prosecutor watching with at least a voice over effect of the dialogue. Where as it's less work, to just show the interview room scene only, then cut to the next scene in the office, discussing it with the prosecutor, which I thought would be less footage and less audio, since I do not have to show the prosecutor watching therefore. Unless I am wrong?

I could write so that the prosecutor is viewing it remotely. However, I still want him and the main character to have a discussion about her statement without her hearing about it. That means he will have to leave the room while she waits, and that was the issue before, it was said as to being clunky. So is it possible for a detective and a prosecutor to talk about the case, without the victim of the crime hearing about it, without it being clunky?