Process

The process of our piece was a long and stressful one, because we were representing a real person and a serious case of some quite horrific murders, we didnt want it to look cheap and as if we had just picked it to be scary. We were all very passionate about looking into the thoughts of Rose and what would make her do such horrific things. It took me personally a long time to fully research Rose, not only because i wanted to stop watching real footage and interveiws but because it was such a famous case, there was so many! After watching nearly every single video, interveiw and news report and reading every article and book on serial killers mind, i felt as if i had a good understanding (?) on the killings and Rose as a person, she had herself had a very traumatic childhood, with lots of verbal/physical and sexual abuse. As did Fred, so people say that they were perfect for one another? We would spend all of our spare time up in the space, really focusing on little things, i have attached some pictures previously on the blog. There was a lot of scratch marks across the walls, where the technicians have probably dragged trolleys through the corridor, we interpreted these and the victims finger nail marks as they were too dragged through corridors. There was also splats of red paint all over one certain area of the corridor, as you can probably guess, we interpreted this as the victims blood. It was very emotional throughout the process, as to get into the space and the thoughts of the victims and Rose, we had to really connect with the situations, and every little thing in the space. We kept having to remind one another that this really happened to many young girls. The space was very invasive and claustrophic, which is probably how the victims were feeling up to their death. This is also how Rose most probably felt throughout her life with the regret and guilt building on her. I think we worked really well as a group and really did do all we could to portray what we needed too.