Changes to our final film

After making our first draft and watching numerous examples of other peoples first drafts, we have decided to completely revamp the majority of the film. Not too much new filming will have to take place as by changing a little filming, you can still manage to change how the audience views it and the opinions and emotions they feel can easily be flipped. We have come to this conclusion because we felt it just did not feel like the beginning of a film. The office scene with the detective began to feel unnecessary and so did various other bits. Therefore, we immediately cut the whole office scene so it would have finished with Amber trying to kill Roxanne in the bathroom, then have the film title and a gunshot and bam, the end. The beginning of the film needed a smoother opening to firstly set the scene, and secondly, allow the audience to begin to relax into our film without immediate dialogue which would take concentration and focus away, you rarely are totally engaged in the first 2 minutes of watching a film. With that in mind, we began the film with a long shot of Amber walking up a street and entering the side gate of a house. She looks suspcious and I believe is holding a gun. We have added non-digetic sounds of foot steps which match hers. This panning scene gives nothing away but makes the audience immediately feel uneasy and suspicious of this character. We have then added a small scene of Roxanne alone in her kitchen, recieving a phonecall and discussing her evening plans. From that we know that nobody is expected to enter the house as she is about to have a bath. The way we have changed the film just allows you to know more of what is going on instead of it being a guessing game and then as it ends with a question mark it means the rest of the film would unravel what happened so it seems more and more like a film opening the more we go on.


In addition, we have also edited the credits so the company logo's I previously uploaded which had  obviously been drawn out on paper will no longer be our production and distributor's company logos. This is simply because they did not look professional when we experimented adding them to the film and as our film has a dark, morbid story I think everything about the story should reflect that, by having the logo's on a black background. To change this, we will still have the same names for the companies however it will just be the words written without any picture logo. This way it takes no attention away from the wording and the credits seem more central and distinctive.