Narrative Progress

Our film's storyline has changed majorly from the original story arc, mainly due to scheduling problems with our actors leading to us not getting enough footage. Also, as we did not like the way that our actors acted, in regards to their voices, we muted the majority of the audio on the actual video footage, focusing instead on using background music. We removed some key scenes, altered others and added new ones that completely warped the original story-line, with the introduction of the sixth character.

The start of our actual product begins with the opening credits, which are different shots of items and locations based on our film. In comparison, our story-arch started with a person being chased down by the killer. Whilst we did incorporate these shots into the credits, it was not the main focus, instead being shown briefly in order to raise the sense of mystery. We still included the drone shots of the woodland, but instead used it as the very first scene as opposed to the follow-up of the main title (which was replaced by the shot of the exploding fire). Due to the muting of our clips, we removed the scene with the birds being startled by the female scream, but did include the shots with Jock and Princess hugging whilst Criminal watches. We used all of the character introductions included in our story-arch, in exactly the same way, apart from changing the audio (for example we didn't use a heartbeat sound effect for Basket-Case). We completely removed the scene with the characters sitting around the fire as they did not turn up for filming, but we did still use shots of a fire in the film. We did include the Criminal and Basket-Case flashback and the Criminal with the switch-blade flashback, but removed the others as we didn't have time to film. We replaced the final part of the two-minutes with the build-up to the reveal of the sixth character, who has been captured and is being held captive at the end. This builds up intrigue for the movie, and we thought it was a more effective ending than the one we had planned.