1. 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.