We decided to go against the results of our survey in that the majority of people wanted to see an original story line However, in our past productions we had gone with making our own story and have realized afterwards that it was not fleshed out enough and the story lacked realism and background. Therefore we decided to go with an adaptation and in the end came up with The A6 Murders.
The A6 Murder was the murder of a scientist called Micheal Gregsten and his mistress, Valerie Storie were attacked in August 1961. Gregsten was shot and killed and Valerie was raped and also shot however she survived but was paralysed form the neck down. According to Valerie's account the two were abducted in the car by a man later found to be James Hanratty and ordered to drive in several directions before eventually stopping on the A6 at Deadmans Hill were the offences took place. There were two suspects, James Hanratty and Peter Alphon, after many investigations and witness accounts. James Hanratty was sentenced to death and was the last person to be hanged in Britain. However, there was always speculation that he never committed the offences and his family decided to appeal in 2002 when DNA evidence could be used. The evidence proved Hanratty as guilty beyond doubt.
We decided to go with this story as we could do a now time copy of the murder, this will add to the tension as people who may watch it may have been familiar with the original A6 Murder so will catch on to the tension of the story as the police in the film try to uncover what has happened.
Below are our first drafts of the storyboards for our film:
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