Improvements and Adaptations

Sound

While editing we decided to change the music in our opening sequence because we had one song, "Tonight You Belong To Me" playing throughout the whole sequence. This song worked well as it contrasted the thriller concept and created a 'creepy' tone to the sequence. However, we decided that just using one song limited our options and by using another instrumental song our opening sequence will become more complex and tie in better with the thriller theme. 

We found an instrumental song that works perfectly with our opening sequence called "Insidious Theme". This is the soundtrack to the motion picture 'Insidious' and it's creepy violin and 'heartbeat' sound effects create a sense of tension and suspense. 

We will merge the two songs together to create a louder, more intense background music and fade out the beginning and end of each song to make it run smoothly.

Cast

We had previously planned to use two young girls and a slightly older boy in our opening sequence but we were unable to fulfil this as one of the young girls we had planned to use, Sienna, was unable to make the filming dates we had planned at very short notice. Fortunately, we had planned for such an event and already had a backup in place; Tom, Florence's brother.

Although Tom is 13 while Sienna is 5, he still conveys to the audience a young, defenceless child who has no chance of defending himself against an older, seemingly powerful, domineering and dangerous man. In our opening sequence the cast will now consist of two young boys, Kit and Tom, a young girl, Jessie, and Mark, a middle aged father figure. These actors still match are original plan as we didn't base our opening sequence on gender. In the planning process we focused on the theme of our opening scene and had backup actors in place for such eventualities.