Friday, 20 February 2009

Thriller Alterations

Our original thriller film idea had to be changed, even though it was a good idea, due to the filming of our original not having enough varity of camera shots and angles and the action not being clear due to poor lighting. Although our first idea was original and worked well, due to the lack of varity in the shots and unclear action we decided to change it to the film we have now; Snatched. In Snatched there is a wide varity of shot types from point of view, close ups, match on action, tilt shot etc.

Instead of just re-filming the original idea, which was immigration, we decided to change our idea completely because the location for our original film wasn't as accessible to our group as the City Center; also the certain people we had cast for the immigration film found it difficult to make it to Great Yarmouth (our original location) and to make time in order to attend the shot, in order to fix this problem we recast and had Emily and I as two of the characters and Andrew Drane as our third character; having Emily and I as two of the characters made it easier to make sure everyone could attend the shot, as we needed to be there anyway. Our final character played by Andrew (Andy) Drane was in our original film and agreed to be in our second attempt as well, this was helpful as we didn't need to explain anymore than the storyline to him as he had attended the original shoot as well.

I have included the planning for the original thriller below the planning for the recent completed thriller film, and storyboards for the original film should be up shortly.

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