Transition: Show research

Jessica Jones is a Netflix series starring Krysten Ritter as Jessica. It follows her life as a PI in Hell's Kitchen New York. The character experiences serious PTSD and emotional trauma causing her to be highly sarcastic, her superhuman abilities given to her by a lab are super strength and having previously tried to be a superhero she now lives alone and hidden from the world.

Casting

Jessica Jones is a character who's parents and brother died in a car crash when she was a child. She was taken by a clinic who gave her ability to have super strength, she was under the influence of Kilgrave for a few years until she broke free and is now a PI. Jessica is now a sarcastic, alcoholic who lives alone in Hell's Kitchen - Krysten Ritter, an American actress known for roles such as "Don't the B**** in apartment 23" 

Malcolm Duccasse, is a ex drug addict who in the second series works for Jessica. He was also under the influence from Kilgrave however Jessica helped him escape - Eka Darville who has also starred in "The Vampire Diaries"

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Our casting will be 2 characters, male and female from the UK to help sell the idea the we are in the UK.

Locations

There are multiple locations in Jessica Jones including: Jessica's Apartment, Lawyers office and Kilgrave's home.

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For our remake the location will be Jessica's apartment within a block of flats, this will be done in a student house.

Scripting

The series uses voice over regularly, initially this allowed the character of Jessica to be set up quickly and easily, however now it helps the audience work things out them self.

Lighting








The use of lighting is there to heavily connote character intentions, lighting changes when someone like Kilgrave comes into shot the lighting changes to show his character is evil.
The colour is symbolism of Kilgrave's purple body in the original comic. 

Producer

Aïda Mashaka Croal

Aïda Mashaka Croal has been the producer for "Luke Cage", "Jessica Jones" and "Turn: Washington's Spies". She was also the supervising producer for the episode we decided to remake "AKA Start at the beginning".

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This reseach helped me understand the look and appeal of the Jessica Jones series, as well as how I can make the remake we do fit in with the series as much as possible.