Changes we have made

From our initial idea we have made a few changes to develop our production into a better, more professional production.

I feel that as a group we have made a few changes to improve the quality of our production. We have cut a few things out and added something to try to improve the overall feel of our production. One thing that we have taken out is the typewriter scene at the begging as we felt that it didn’t hold the tension and made our opening too long, we took this out and replaced it with our titles at the begging instead of simply being placed at the end. We spent a lot of time thinking about our titles and realised that they worked too well to just be put at the end, so we decided that we would cut them up and include them in the opening shot.

We have also done a lot of discussion about music, we started with a simple song, but when putting it against out video we realised it again didn’t quite work and didn’t hold the tension the way we wanted it too. When we realised this we cut a section of the song that we thought worked and added other non-diegetic music to help build the tension. We have used breathing and different instruments to help build and hold the tension. We now feel that the sound works much better and matches the quality of the video.

We have also added another of Tiny Tim's tracks. We was happy with the sound of our thriller but thought it needed something else to make sure that the tension was kept high as Jake started walking past the 'this is my happy place' graffiti. This song works well with the other sounds that we also have playing and creates a good sense of mystery. The song being called and about his 'Daddy' also fits extremely well in our production.

Something else that we have changed is the ending of the production. We took another shot of blood dripping onto a photo that we have added in earlier in the production. This has worked well and is used just after Jake has been killed. We have put this shot over the shot of us leaving Nocton Hall, this is very effective and almost shows the end. Us leaving and the blood dripping works very well together. When we was doing this we took a few shots, but had to think about continuity to make sure that it tied in with the rest of the production.

We have also changed the name of our production. It was originally called 'Discarded' this was a good title but is something that we was not 100 percent. When our production was deleted and we had to redo it we thought it would only be fitting if we called it 'The Lost Project' this also tied in well with the fact that the child was lost in the fire and the building has been abandoned.

Another thing that we have changes is the positioning of our titles, production ident and production name. Originally we was going to have the production title at the beginning of the production and the ident and titles at the end of the production. We tried this and felt that it didn't work extremely well. We then tried opening with the production ident, followed with our titles which was edited with a clip of Nocton Hall. This worked extremely well and we was happy with is, so we put the title of the movie at the end of the production, this also worked well, we faded it in and out with fades to black with also made it run a lot smoother.