Changes

We originally planned for the genre to be thriller/ horror however we changed it to thriller/ murder mystery. We did this as we believe that this genre is more interesting to watch as the mystery element means the audience can get more involved by trying to guess whats going to happen, what is happening and who the murderer is. The thriller/murder mystery genre also means the story line is more likely to intrigue the audience more than a thriller/ horror genre would do because it isn't so predictable.

Another element that we changed was the location for the opening credits. Initially, we envisioned putting them over  foggy/ eerie shots of the beach early in the morning, with the sound of the waves in the background. We decided to change this because the rest of the film is in an urban setting and we thought it would be a bit confusing if we were to suddenly change from a seaside location to someone running through a council estate. Therefore we filmed the shots for  the credits in the same location as the rest of the film opening.

Right at the beginning we decided on having multiple characters instead of just one. However, we both then thought that having one main character would be more effective as it makes the narrative and  camera shots clearer. If we were to have more than one character we would have the same broad story-line but there would a group of people being chased, and instead of one getting killed they would each be killed one after the other. We thought this wouldn't be as effective and could be slightly confusing. We did use a second person but they were only shown as a shadow to portray the murderer, and they were only in one scene.