Synopsis:

When I first saw the 3-part/3-hour 2009 'Moses Jones' BBC mini-series, I was blown away by how good it was. However, it was not what I had expected from the promotional material, it was a multi-layered, multi-character exploration of immigrant identity. But I'd thought it would be a familiar Police Drama, focusing primarily on the two Cops played by Shaun Parkes and Matt Smith. So this is my attempt to create the movie that I'd expected.

Intentions:

I've tried to focus the narrative solely on the two Cops Moses and Dan and only introduce the secondary characters when our two leads meet them. Unlike in the original, we the viewer will uncover the facts of the murder, as Moses and Dan are uncovering them... we will almost exclusively, only see what they see. I've also rearranged and changed certain parts of the narrative to make it flow better with my new cuts. The ending has also been rearranged and rescored and a new credits sequence/montage added.

Change List:

00.00.00 - Added TM2YC Ident 00.00.11 - Added BBC Films Ident 00.00.28 - Removed onscreen BBC Logo and replaced with 'Third World, First World' music video footage (And colour corrected it) 00.00.40 - Removed original 'Moses Jones' Episode 1 titlecard and replaced with 'Third World, First World, music video footage (And colour corrected it) 00.03.53 - Removed scenes of Joy, Gerald and Joe and created fade into Gerald's abduction 00.03..57 - Brought Gerald's abduction and discovery of body forward 00.04.43 - Added new 'London' titlecard 00.05.46 - Removed outside establishing shot of Moses 00.07.35 - Brought autopsy scene forward 00.08.10 - Removed scenes of Solomon, Joe, Matthias and Mahoney 00.08.48 - Mixed in additional office SoundFX 00.14.57 - Removed footage of Matthias, Mahoney, Peter and Paul 00.16.59 - Brought forward scene of Moses speaking to his Mum from Episode 2 00.18.22 - Removed scenes of Joy, Solomon, Joe and Dolly 00.24.06 - Mixed in additional music by Goldfrapp 00.24.13 - Removed scenes of Joe and Dolly 00.29.50 - Removed Episode 2 titles and recut footage and dialogue and brough scene forward 00.30.29 - Removed scenes of Matthius and Joy 00.32.14 - Removed scene of Joe 00.33.01 - Removed scene of Solomon and Joe 00.33.10 - Removed scene of Solomon and Joe 00.33.30 - Brought forward footage of Selwyn 00.34.19 - Removed more Episode 2 titles 00.35.52 - Removed scenes of Solomon, Peter, Paul and Joy and trimmed church footage intro 00.39.26 - Removed scenes of Matthius and Dankworth 00.43.40 - Fixed mis-cropping error in original shot 01.00.22 - Removed footage of Joe, Joy and Dolly 01.03.56 - Removed footage of Frank and Joy 01.07.48 - Pushed back Solomon's violent reprisal until after the fire fatality 01.07.56 - Removed Episode 3 title sequence and recut end of Episode 2 into a new music montage 01.09.54 - Replaced 7 shots that featured onscreen credits with shots from the 'Third World, First World' music video 01.18.24 - Rmoved scenes of Matthius 01.22.56 - Removed refrence to Solomon 01.28.10 - Removed scene of Matthius and Frank 01.28.18 - Recut and cropped fire footage so we don't see Matthius' face 01.29.24 - Recut and rearranged morgue scene to focus on Solomon 01.30.41 - Removed scenes of Matthius, Frank, Joy and Dolly 01.33.37 - Altered edit into Mutilators to preserve emotion a little better 01.35.02 - Removed angry crowd shots 01.35.08 - Removed scene of Matthius 01.36.30 - Removed scenes of Matthius 01.38.19 - Removed scenes of Joy and Solomon 01.39.52 - Combined both scenes of Matthius and Solomon into one 01.42.40 - Trimmed dialogue between Matthius and Solomon 01.42.57 - Trimmed more dialogue between Matthius and Solomon 01.43.04 - Trimmed more dialogue between Matthius and Solomon 01.50.00 - Radically recut and rearranged the ending montage. Removed all dialogue from Joy, added additional music and replaced Sound FX. It now runs smoothly from serious to happy unlike the slightly inconsistent original 01.51.53 - Removed Joy mentioning here desire to leave London soon, to add more weight the ending 01.52.32 - Mixed in additional sound FX to replace original's removal 01.52.37 - Mixed in new music over finale and credits: Coldcut - Walk A Mile In My Shoes Feat. Robert Owens (Henrik Schwarz Mix) 01.52.54 - Replaced original TV style credits with slightly more filmic ones and created a new montage of London documentary footage to play underneath (Graded footage to match body of the film).

Additional Notes:

- Tried to replicate the 'documentary' editing style in my cut - Removed a third of the material not relating to Moses and Dan or that was needed for the plot - Reordered many scenes to change narrative and flow - Held back the reveal of the villain until 90 minutes in - Removed several subplots - Recut, rescored and rebuilt the ending - Added new credits/montage.

Other Sources:

Moses Jones (PAL DVD) Goldfrapp - Supernature (CD LP) Coldcut - Walk A Mile In My Shoes (CD Single).

Special Thanks:

Thanks to those who contributed Soundtrack ideas and other suggestions in the Edit thread.