Changes to our Horror Opening

(Alterations)

Changing to the Script…• When looking at the final project, we can see that most of our dialogue within our actual

planned script has changed or have been removed. The reason for this is because we wanted to create more mystery within the opening, and for the audience to start questioning what is happening, so we decided to use as little dialogue as we could to make sure that much is not known to the audience until the very end.

• The lines that we decided to use or continue using was:

Little Girl’s Narration: “Things aren’t always what they seem to be” (This is when she is skipping to the church)

Little Girl’s Narration: “My past will haunt me forever and there is nothing I can do to stop him” (This is when she is walking towards the grave)

Male Silhouette: “Sorry little bird, this is the way it has to be” (This is when she is being cornered into the abandoned house)

Little Girl: “DADDY!” (This is just when the knife scene fades out, and the screen goes blank)

• However, when looking at our script we can still see that most of the stage directions and movement have stayed the same, only some have been not used, this was because they wouldn’t of fitted in with our new speech lines. So with the use of little dialogue this helped keep the mystery that we mainly wanted throughout our opening and the stage directions stayed planned with the storyboarding as well, only some were taken out because of the location where we was and wasn’t able to film them there, or they didn’t fit in with our new script.

Key:Red Writing: New Lines for the Script

Blue Writing: Same lines from the planned script

Changing the Costume of the Little GirlWhen doing the filming we also did change the way in what the little

girl Character’s costume was like. We wanted her to seem like an ordinary girl towards the audience, making it seem like this could happen to anyone, or any parent’s child, making this a more scary situation for the audience to understand and watch. So in the end

and during filmed as a group we decided for her to wear blue jeans, black dolly shoes with white socks, a white knitted cardigan (Still

keeping with the theme of white meaning innocence as this was a main planned thing within our opening) and a navy blue coat. We

decided to use the coat because when filming the weather was cold in we then decided to incorporate this into our opening. It was fairly easy and we then agreed as a group that the coat she is wearing was what belonged to her mother (Which links in with “The Past Never Let goes”, she can’t let her mum go), so she decided to wear this

when her mother was murdered. This outfit we used still linking in with innocence also helped us to link this in with the Group E

audience.

Props we decided not to use…• When planning for our opening we did also decide on the props that we wanted to use, these were a flower, knife and a teddy bear. However when

it came to filming these had to be changed…• We decided to keep with the teddy bear as this was our main prop to help

portray the little Girl’s character, and we were able to get one to use for the present day filming.

• We also still used the knife, as this was the male silhouette's main prop as this is the main murder weapon that he killed the mother and the little girl in the past events that we see through the flashbacks. So this was a main

prop that was needed for him and enable us to tell the story with it.• However the prop that we didn’t end up using the flowers that she would

use to go to her mother’s grave with. We didn’t have this because we didn’t have one to use on the day of filming and as we changed the script the flower wasn’t needed to be used and we didn’t want to spend to much filming at her mother’s grave to enable more flashback scenes for the

audience to mainly understand the whole opening.

The Flashbacks and Changes to the Beginning of the opening…

Changing the Flashbacks to red rather then using Black and

White/Blue…

• We decided as a group that the flashback scenes should be red as oppose to black and white or blue which was an original idea that we decided on to show that its in the

past. We then decided to change the scenes to red because it would make the audience aware that the little girl

is in danger as the colour red connotes this, and by the end of the

opening they would make a conclusion as to whether they think

she is dead or not creating that suspense for the audience.

Changing the beginning of the Opening…

• When we was planning our horror opening we was planning on having the little girl sing or hum the Itsy Bitsy Spider song at the very

beginning as she heads towards her mother’s grave but we then decided on the day of filming against this because like with the dialogue, we

wanted to just keep the opening scenes a mystery and unknown until the end, so the

effect of silence was created as a mysterious effect. The silence also made it though the little girl was mourning because her body language helped make it seem that way, with how she

would slowly move, and her head would mostly be down throughout the opening, like she still

can’t get over her past events as well as being a ghost being unable to rest as “he” is always

chasing her.