DOCUMENTARY AND THE ACCESSOR

Following my successful work with Annabel in 2007, i've mainly focused on creating documentary work for the project in the last two years. Again i wasn't totally sure on what this form this would take, but have lately decided they should be similarly to extra's on DVD's. I've done self intro's with actresses I used in my stories before like with Annabel, Rhiannon Prytherch, Anna Purver and Kat, but i kinda used to spring it upon them at the end and they didn't really get to prepare much. Maybe there not so bad done that way as are very natural. I've put some of those video's on my Facebook page.

I also spent a day with Hannah Stone describing every scene that Annabel and I did a photo still for. Rhiannon and Kat also both did explanations of the photo stills they were involved in, in the roles of Dora Bregan and Celia respectively. I thought these film peices would act as good references i could use with new performances and participants to fill them in on my projects. It also shows them some of the people i worked with and how they felt about working with me .. well i kinda think it does anyway.

I haven't completed my photo stills project for the Misdirection yet, but I was becoming interested in writing a new story called The Accessor and wanted to work with a actress named Rhiannon Prytherch from Derby so I tried out some ideas for some stills with her in the role of Dora Bregan. The Accessor is a political story about ambition and about how far a person can stay loyal to their country and identity when faced with huge moral questions. I've not casted the lead character Valin Bregan yet. Dora is his sister. They both achieve very high results academically and move quickly into civil service jobs within government. Valin is enlisted to carry out work reporting back on revoluionarary groups within neighbouring country East Zhorta which exists under occupation. Valin as a complete unknown is seen as the perfect person to arrive in East Zhorta and to work unnoticed as a spy and to provide intelligence. His previous life as also revealed no signs of unpatriot tendancies and he goes with all his family hugely proud of him in the role he is about to undertake. He arrives in East Zhorta and rents a room in a guesthouse and takes up a job in the area where it is neccessary to spy. He immediately befriends revolutionaries, but over time starts to become disillusioned with his task and begins to sympathise with East Zhortans. During the story he tries to keep sending reports whilst in fact participating in revolutionary activity. He is constantly concerned at being found out by either his new revolutionary friends or the government who is employing him. He is also conflicted by disappointing his proud West Zhortan family and is trying to uncover the identity of another spy either sent by government or working for the revolutionaries.

One of his prime suspects is a Chambermaid played by Anna Purver who he regularly here's moving around in the hallway outside the door of the room where he stays. He also suspects someone to have searched his room during severals occasions when he has vacated it. Anna was on the same BSC Occupational Therapy course as me as Derby University and had extremely intriging dress sense which seemed like it could fit perfectly within this story. She also had a really extremely appearence, being small in height and thought would portray the role as being someone who look fragile and innocent, but potential very harmful if she was a spy leaving Valin with difficult decisions upon how to unmask her and remove her threat without raising alarm as to his own identity amongst East Zhortians.

We worked in an Old Chapel at Nottingham City Hospital which was quite easy to use thanks to my mum and Glen Price. I got the props from Liz. I guess the cups could have been better and more old fashioned, but i'll put up with them. My shoot with Rhiannon was at Markeaton Park. To be honest we were walking and walking trying to find the right spot to make the right picture, but eventually we reached a bridge and i think that worked. We could have made some better adaptations to the costumes, but generally it was okay. Rhiannon play the prim and proper expression of Dora fine. It aims to be a picture which Valin keeps on the table of his room whilst in East Zhorta, but later in the story it is actually stolen.