Background research to our 2min film
The 'brides in the bath' murders.
My independent research into our film
Whilst watching a documentary on discovery channel I came across documentaries about a group of men who murdered a number of women in their bath at home. I found this very significant to the background of our film.
The men involved where named:
George Joseph, Charles James, Henry Williams and John Lloyd.
These four men were all found guilty of the murders of three women named:
Bessie Williams who was found dead in her bath in 1912,
Alice Burnham who was found dead in her bath 1913,
And Margaret Lofty who was found dead in her bath in 1914,
The four murders' all plotted against these innocent women to kill them all in the same way. They wore black leather jackets and black leather gloves. They had planned these killing for years watching each woman.
Each killing was consecutive to another. All four watched their victims for a long period of time before striking.
Charles, Henry and John had all broken in their house before to know their way around and get a key.
On each year one would happen first it was Bessie in 1912, then Alice in 1913, then Margaret in 1914.
George Joseph however was married to Bessie and killed for her money.
As this is a true life story and my group and I film is going to be based on a girl being murdered in a bath; I found this story very significant as now this could be the frame of our film. Although this real life story is not that well known as such of 'Jack The Ripper' I thought in fact this could give the film an advantage as people could be more engaged with to the story to know what happened; especially if they knew it was based on a non-fiction story. Also audience response is very important as if the film was getting published you'd want to sample it on a small group of people to see what their reaction is; if it was poor people aren't going to be motivated enough to it. We had a taster of this when we had audience response back from our preliminary task.
The 'brides in the bath' murders.
My independent research into our film
Whilst watching a documentary on discovery channel I came across documentaries about a group of men who murdered a number of women in their bath at home. I found this very significant to the background of our film.
The men involved where named:
George Joseph, Charles James, Henry Williams and John Lloyd.
These four men were all found guilty of the murders of three women named:
Bessie Williams who was found dead in her bath in 1912,
Alice Burnham who was found dead in her bath 1913,
And Margaret Lofty who was found dead in her bath in 1914,
The four murders' all plotted against these innocent women to kill them all in the same way. They wore black leather jackets and black leather gloves. They had planned these killing for years watching each woman.
Each killing was consecutive to another. All four watched their victims for a long period of time before striking.
Charles, Henry and John had all broken in their house before to know their way around and get a key.
On each year one would happen first it was Bessie in 1912, then Alice in 1913, then Margaret in 1914.
George Joseph however was married to Bessie and killed for her money.
As this is a true life story and my group and I film is going to be based on a girl being murdered in a bath; I found this story very significant as now this could be the frame of our film. Although this real life story is not that well known as such of 'Jack The Ripper' I thought in fact this could give the film an advantage as people could be more engaged with to the story to know what happened; especially if they knew it was based on a non-fiction story. Also audience response is very important as if the film was getting published you'd want to sample it on a small group of people to see what their reaction is; if it was poor people aren't going to be motivated enough to it. We had a taster of this when we had audience response back from our preliminary task.
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