Alterations Along The Way

It is evident that our ideas have changed throughout the process of filming, researching and planning. 

Draft One: 'Baggage'

• First as a group, our idea was that there was a girl with a bag with she threw into a canal. The main enigma would be what was is hiding and is making her look so suspicious?
• However, where the location of the canal had many bushes and was right under a bridge which in result made of footage look dark and grainy.
• Our genre was predominantly Thriller.
• Through the editing process, we found that our credits were not enough and the font and placement of them were incorrect.
• We did rely mostly of the use of flashbacks in this draft and most of the sequence were flashbacks.
• I do think we did challenge ourselves in achieving multiple, unique shots and thought it was quite successful using two cameras.
• The non-diegetic score music was not to our ability and foley sounds were not explored in any way.
• Our opening sequence was not 2 mins long.
• We were able to film the sequence quicker than the other drafts. 

Draft Two: 'Who's Next?'

• This draft took longer than the first and was quite tiring.
• I feel that we were less organised with this draft in concern to the location and props. 
• It was however, a bit better than the first draft.
• The music was again not challenged and created sympathy instead of suspense.
• The main character 'Kayla' scrubbing the floor and looking into the mirror were our most successful shots.
• 'Esere' , a new character was added.
• MES - The blood looked realistic and was a sufficient amount. 
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• Our first attempt to add in Foley sounds was horrible and sounded weird.
• In this draft, we were able to achieve many shots that we were proud of and were able to focus on attention to framing and continuity editing. 

Draft Three And Draft Four: 

• These two drafts were not able to uploaded and were fairly bad.
• We had quite a lot of continuity editing errors.
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• At some points, the camera was unleveled. 
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• Our storyline was quite good but not as clear or exciting.
• Due to lighting issues, the lighting was grainy.

Draft Five: 'Hair'

• We then found that our storyline was beginning to learn more foward the Slasher/Horror genre because of the gory detail and imagery. This was with a slight hint of the Thriller genre as well.
• With influences from Maniac, Texas Chainsaw Massacre and Hard Candy, we researched more into the film making process of these films and their amazing storylines.
• In order to reinforce the elements of a restrictive narrative, we decided to shoot our opening in predominently POV in order to reserve the identity of killer till much later.