Initial planning and changes we made

Location
We plan to shoot our film opening on a dark, sinister pathway. This is due to the impression we want the audience to receive, then we will contrast and film some of the opening in an everyday family home. These locations have been chosen as they suit our genre conventions and fit with the main themes to our film. When shooting we have had to think about whether to shoot in the day or at night, if we shoot outside when it’s light we can add some special effects in afterwards. This factor will be dependant on the whether and the environmental state on that day. To see which method will look more effective overall, we will have to text them both.

Production Concerns
When creating our short film opening we will have to ensure we follow the health and safety regulations. Everything we attempt must remain within these guidelines and we must ensure that everything is safe and will cause no harm to use or anyone else.

Technical Limitations
As our film isn’t on the same scale as a large scale Hollywood film, therefore things such as costume and props will be limited. Also, the equipment and machinery will not be available to us like it is within multi million pound productions. However, we will still be able to create an effective film opening which follows the genre conventions and fulfils the brief well.


Changes we made
We decided that we would change our orginal idea to include the attack on the young girl within our opening, although we kept the shots of her after/before her attack we decided that by limiting what the audience know at this point will allow for them to want to continue on and see more. The quick pace, repeated snapshots of her on the path were later added to allow for tension to build and for suspense to be created.
After editing our film we looked upon improvements we could make and I believe we have addressed many weakenesses to our film and I can confidentally say that we have changed them to the best of our ability to portray the correct message to our viewers.