Directions - The Director Prep Project

Actor: James McAvoy - Due to McAvoy's northern heritage (born in Scotland) he will know a fair bit about northern upbringing, northern sayings, and basically the northern way of life. He also has a huge variety of accents and personas at his disposal so he would be more than qualified to play the part of  Eddie Dunford. McAvoy has also had experience with this style of genre playing Dan Foster in State of Play a short British TV series aired in America.

Director of Photography: Peter Sinclair - One of the main reasons I would choose Sinclair as the Director of Photography would be that he was DP for most of the episodes in the crime TV series New Tricks. Yes New Tricks can be slightly humorous in places however the lighting, colour and staging is absolutely on point with all the episodes. For example if a light hearted conversation is going on in the office a beam of warm yellowish sunlight might be shining through the blinds, but when arriving at a crime scene the frame will be very cold and blue. It is as much about the obvious choices as it is about the subtle ones when it comes to being Director of Photography.



Production Designer: Gillian Devenney - By definition a production designer or P.D. is the person responsible for the overall visual look of the production. Production designers have a key creative role in the creation of motion pictures and television. Devenney was Co- production Designer with two others ( Edward Thomas and Tom Brown) on a TV series called Line Of Duty, however they only worked on three episodes each where as Devenney accomplished nine. Line Of Duty, set in the west midlands, is about a Detective Sergeant who is transferred to an anti - corruption unit but as the story progresses there seems to be corruption a lot closer to home than originally suspected.

Composer: Noah Hawley - Noah Hawely is an American film and television producer, screenwriter, composer, and bestselling author, known for creating and writing the FX anthology television series Fargo. I feel that Hawely would best suit the role of composer for Red Riding as Fargo bares
similarities to it both in story and genre. And if the genre is similar then the composing can be similar which will mean Hawely wouldn't be out of his comfort zone and could draw on previous experience.








Editor: Elísabet Ronaldsdóttir - Ronaldsdóttir is an Icelandic born editor who has worked on the likes of John Wick, Contraband and The Deep. The editing style of Trapped, the series that I came to find Ronaldsdóttir, is harsh and unrelenting much like the environment it is being filmed in. Very little colour is shown in this TV series and lots of subtle cuts are used to imply who is a suspect or lead you into a red herring.