Gherkin Hoax

Following our search for suitable locations to hoax an act of terrorism around london and the feedback that we received in the tutorial we decided that Battersea power station wouldn't be suitable. Although it is a very iconic building and everybody would recognize it, it wouldn't be suitable in terms of filming, and the fact that it is derelict it could just be mistaken for a controlled destruction. We decided to look into other possible scenario's as well as just moving the location.

Other possibilites that we discussed where:

- hoaxing a beheading
- blowing up buildings (as above) maybe just in london, somewhere further a field, potentially more believable?
- flying planes into buildings, obviously extremely poignant after 9/11

We put together a quick mock up of what this could look like using the Gherkin tower as the public building. It flickers with slightly different photos because we used 4 different stills, obviously this is just a rough example but conveys the look that we would want to achieve in terms of a handheld appearance moving eratically around.



We decided we could feasibly create the hoax using the gherkin because we could use a camera from quite a distance and make it collapse behind other buildings also in the distance. Also, we decided to use the Gherkin plane crash as our preliminary experiment on paper. We will make a mock-up of the Metro paper with the attack and explosion on the front page with a grabbing headline. We will also make up a story for the back sports page too for realism.