Freefall. new BBC drama.

Freefall – the director and main actor from the new drama series was interviewed on BBC 1 morning show. They mentioned how the actors improvised the script first to get a general understanding of the characters and to create more realism. We can trial this out and see if it does represent a more realistic perception of the characters and the environment. He mentions how it’s not structure, filming is not scheduled as it could be filming for hours and then within the editing process the scenes are then divided.
The characters in the drama appear to be very delusion, within the dynamics of the relations between the characters they tell each other what the other wishes to hear. This has an essence of realism in an ironic fashion as people today would rather wish everything is okay and things will get better with time. This is an optimistic point of view but the characters show no drive to work harder to create better lives for themselves therefore just dreaming about what may happen, not what will.






Dominic Savage writes and directs the sort of TV drama (Out of Control, Born Equal) that traditionally attracts the adjective “gritty”. Perhaps for this reason, his work generally appeals to critics, who always appreciate a break from their usual bland diet of adultery and murder. Here at last, the argument runs, is somebody willing to tackle big issues – and to make television that comes palpably from the heart.
Yet, while both of these things are true, that does’t necessarily make the results as brilliant as his champions claim. In last night’s Freefall (BBC Two), Savage took on the credit crunch. Once again, his heartfelt approach was on full display – but so was its most obvious downside: a complete lack of subtlety.



This is a short extract from a review of Freefall. I believe this director has a similar intention to what we would like to do as a group. Freefall not only bases itself within an office environment centralising around the recession and how it truly effects real people. It's said to be done more subtly and i think as we're producing a soap and not a drama it will house the perfect blend of reality.



It turned out, too, that Dave had some serious competition in the greedy-villain stakes. In the City of London, banker Gus (Aidan Gillen) was so excited by closing another deal that he went to the toilets to masturbate. Over lunch with his teenage daughter, his utter obsession with money meant that he gave her (and us) a handy explanation of mortgage collateralised debt obligations.
In the meantime Dave was chasing his biggest-baddie crown even harder than before. His old school-friend Jim (Joseph Mawle) had already been established as the very definition of “poor but happy”, joshing away with his loving family in their rented council house. Even so, Dave persuaded him to take out a discounted mortgage, without explaining how much the repayments would increase in the second year.



It's shocking how much this drama resembles our initial ideas. The boss who's money greedy with a disturbing focus on success. Obviously we shalln't involve such crude and controversial story lines as it's too pessimistic and too forceful to appeal to a larger audience.
The character of our caretaker was to be defined as 'poor but happy' although, we weren't going to make him vulnerable to deception but more as a friendly companion to the workers within the organisation.

We should research deeper into some of their story lines to give us a good stimulus for ideas.