Change of main task

After filming our main task we watched it back and though it lacked major aspects of a thriller, we spent weeks filming and editing it and we felt as though the shots weren't continuous, the sound (non-diagetic) was rubbish and the overall storyline failed to create suspense/tension and made little sense. As we were so unhappy with our thriller opening we decided to film it again at last minute, we quickly thought up ideas and by watching a few videos of thriller sections (which I will post below) we came up with an idea and even music.
Our new idea kept some scenes of the old shooting in so that made it even easier for us as nearly half of the filming was done already, however we still had to film over half of the opening. We chose my house as a setting as it is a typical household setting which we wanted for the scene.
The story of our new opening:
The scene will open with the shots of a dead girls eye and zoom out into her body, during this there will be flashes with the titles and credits in. During this scene there will be voices explaining the death and other voices explaining what has gone wrong in the dad of the dead girls life since the murder. The last flash will then fade out into a new scene opening with the dad waking up on what seems to be a typical day, (shown by how he gets up, listens to the radio and cooks breakfast) however he then recieves a phonecall which then reminds him to phone someone. As the phonecall ends the scene fades to black and then the title of the film fades in.

The main idea behind our new film was from the thriller 'Taken': www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Y_Wu36wIEM

After watching this scene on youtube we had the idea for our storyline and also the phonecall at the end.

Another thriller we research was 'The Lovely Bones', we really liked the idea of a man trying to find the murderer of his daughter and becoming obsessed by it. This partly gave us inspiration for the story and some of the shots that we have used.

Actors

The protagonist in our film is the dad of the dead girl who is played by Jack Higgs. Although he isn't the ideal age that we were hoping for to play the dad, we thought he would do a good job as he has a serious posture about him.

The dead girl is played by Charlie Leslie who is the original actor from our old filming, we chose her because she is young and comes across as innocent and vunerable.

The main detective is played by Michael Scorer as he seems a lot more older and mature than other actors making him more fitted to the role of the main detective

Script:

Media Script and actors -

Voice over’s (beginning scene)

Distressed roommate, (played by Tilly Guess):
Please help, it’s my roommate, I don’t know what to do she’s not breathing
Policeman informed (played by George Nicholls):
I’m sorry to have to inform you but we’ve found a body, we believe it’s your daughter
Mum/Mrs Watson (played by Lauren Anthony):
Oh god, no (in tears)
Dad/Mr Watson (played by Jack Higgs):
Have you found out who did this to my daughter?
Policeman:
I’m sorry but we can’t find him, we’re going to have to drop the case
Dad/Mr Watson:
You can’t do this!
Boss of Dad (played by Calum Bowen):
I’m sorry Mr Watson I’m going to have to let you go.
Mum/Mrs Watson:
You’ve got to stop drinking Jack. I need you (saddened)
Dad/Mr Watson:
I will find who did this!
Mum/Mrs Watson:
Can’t you just let it go?!
Dad/Mr Watson:
How can you say that?!!
Mum/Mrs Watson:
I’m sorry Jack, I can’t do this anymore


Second scene (all played by the Dad)

Dad/Mr Watson (on phone to killer):
Is this Mr Hunt? 5 Years ago you were involved in the murder of my daughter. I will find you, and I will kill you.