Changes we made to the scenes

Our story line had to change from our initial storyboard due to a number of reasons. One of them being the reliability of the actors who we needed were unable to make it during the times were we wanted to film. This put more pressure on the group in terms of time and keeping to a schedule. To go around this issue we were able to obtain a new character, Mario Tofaris who was our new character in the role of Christina’s father rather than David. This allowed us to be more flexible with filming as Mario attended our sixth form as a collegiate student making it easier for us to film after school without so much of a delay.

Another reason for changing the story line was due to issues with the school as we were not allowed permission after the first filming to shoot on site. This gave us even more limited time on filming and put more pressure on the group to finish. Luckily we were able to find permission to film on another site – Trinity at Bowes.  However as the building changed we were unable to film the scene with the corridor as it internal design was different to that at school and would affect the consistency of the filming if our character would be viewed in a blatantly different location.

We attempted to get around this issue by turning the lights off in one room and shine a torch on our character. This made it unclear of the room and would only view the location as though it were a corridor. However because the lighting was too dark even with the torch it still appeared too dark for us to film. This led us to come up with the idea of the lift scene which was also in the new building where we were filming. After the attempt to film the corridor scene in the one room did not work we had to quickly think of how we were going to film this part of our thriller and how we would link it straight after the toilets scene. We decided add more suspense to our thriller through the CCTV camera which allowed us to use the conventions of thriller of the use of black and white.

For our thriller we had intended to use white noise to reveal Mario in the toilets scene with Christina to add to the sense of suspense and give it that skipped heart beat effect. However because of the short amount of time which Mario was viewed in the filming we decided to keep it out and leave it only on the background music. This also kept the texture lighter so that not too many sounds were layered all at once.