CONSTRUCTION: Photofit Criminal identification scene

From the FutureLearn course Forensic Psychology, we learned about various processes in which witnesses to crimes attempt to identify suspects, such as through line-ups and through the re-creation of faces using software such as Photofit, E-fit and Efit-V.

Efit-V is the latest composite system to be used by the police. Efit-V is designed to try and utilise face recognition rather than face recall. The design of Efit-V once again demonstrates how important it is to have psychological knowledge of how the mind works and when it comes to the investigations

Our production team used Photofit Me in our trailer. The scene involoves PI Andrews in his office trying to make a photographic profile from memory of a possible murder suspect

We were very excited to incorporate such a convincingly professional method into our film, we belive that this clip lends authenticity to the trailer. We use the process in two types of shots:

• Over the Shoulder shot of PI Andrews at work on Photofit Me
• POV shots of the software that he is working on

http://www.open.edu/openlearn/body-mind/photofit-me