Revisions

Character revisions

Adam:

Adam was set to be a second family member, Eve's baby brother. We removed Adam from our plans due to the creation of Luke. This father and daughter relationship is stronger therefore may get a larger response from our audience. There was no room for Adam to be introduced to the audience since we didn't want too many characters in our short film. Luke could have a speaking role instead of a difficult procedure to make it known that Adam is Eve's baby brother when we weren't sure if Adam would actually feature in the short film and instead hinted by Foley sound. Another reason why this would be troublesome for us is the casting since we would have to get a young person to play the part if we had any onscreen footage of Adam. This onscreen footage would only last a few seconds as he wasnt a large part of our short film and was to develop Eve.

 

Country Lane

In our location post, we mentioned how we needed a cut off road to shoot our first scene when the car is pulling up to the camera and that we would go to a location near Burgess Hill. Instead of doing this we chose to go somewhere closer to one of our other shoots and film it there as it wasnt busy and that is something we needed. To go to the separate location and film would have meant that we would have needed all to have got there via car which may have been a hassle for all of us to do when we could get the same success close to another location. We also don't know how we would have got permission to shoot on the road and there is a main road not too far away so sound could travel and get picked up by the sound device. The road that we picked as our final shoot road was on a quieter part of the location so we could try and record minimal sound and footage of anything around. So basically this change meant there would be less traveling for us but with the same results with a similar looking location.      

 

Weapons and extra screen time for the survivor

In our plans, we included having weapons to have extra screen time with the survivor but this got changed once our ending idea changed. We wanted to extend the survivor meet up time to have a confrontation with weapons but then we had the idea of Luke and Eve to have a small confrontation either in her mind or in person, the viewer doesn't know. We had health and safety in mind when discussing if we should use any weapons in our short film. We didn't want to cause any problems that would risk our actor and crew so we decided against having a weapon and instead make her seem more vunerable by not giving her any weapons, although there are no immediate threats shown which shows why she would need a weapon as the other characters she interacts with are friendly, scared or imaginary. 

 

 

 

 

Hourglass

The hourglass was an idea that we were very ambitious and hopeful about, we still aren't sure if we will cancel this part completely as it seems such a good idea for us but we never found the spot for it in our narrative. We wanted to have a shot with a functioning hourglass which will have a foley or sound recorded at the time, this would be close up with the camera slowly tracking out or in from it, but not revealing what is going on in the surroundings too much. This was perfect when we were thinking of including more death and blood, which would have suited our ideas to have a scene suggesting that there is a riot occurring or just general apocalyptic bloodshed. This idea went out of the window to allow our narrative to have more focus around Eve and her hallucination or as we began to call her, Lucy, to make it easier when talking about each one.  I still think if we can include this in some way it could create an unique scene, but we would need to be very creative surrounding the changes that put it out of the question in the first place. Although this is true, we have tired to by even suggesting we could have changed the script to include more flash backs therefore include more shots of the hourglass. We also wanted to use a bucket to show time, this would mean there would be drips then it would be full in the next scene.

 

Plant Pot

 The plant pot was originally supposed to be thrown in a house. I dont think we thought this through well as we had to think whilst shooting how we could do this efficiently without any unwanted damage from the surroundings. We put a wooden board behind curtains and instead of as planned throwing the pot, it was pushed towards the board without as much force which eventually gave off the wanted result of the pot smashing apart. We put pillows above the board to block the window as a safety precaution. Although we only got one shot of the plant pot smashing, we got a fair amount of it bouncing off onto the pillows below. This can be synced with the sound we recorded in a safe location where we smashed the remaining pots that our prop buyer bought just in case we needed a number of them, this was also something we did safely as we stood back and recorded it from a distance. We originally planned to do this outside in another meltdown scene which would have made it all so much easier but I feel like it was a success even though the changes made us have to advert to new measures to achieve it. This may not be the biggest of change but it shows how we had to think on the spot to create the shot that we desired from writing the script to shooting but regrettably we should have tried to get more takes of this happening.    

 

 

 

 

 

 

Script  

The script was changed throughout production and pre-production to fit our advancing ideas and issues. The script was modified at this point to make it less bulky and more flowing, cutting all unnecessary dialogue so we could fit more in which helped move the story onwards. I think this was involved the most drastic changes we made in the short film because it effected everything. This includes some of the things on this post as they all started with us removing them from the script or changing things around.