Development & Changes Evaluation

From our original idea we changed and developed our final media product a lot through the stages of construction and editing.

1. Due to not enough footage in the film itself we decided to make up the time by creating an opening title sequence - the title sequence was a result from some research - to produce the opening title sequence we recorded the camera panning a table, which showed the contents of alcohol, drugs, keys, and cigarettes. We added an effect on these shots during the editing process to create a confused effect.

2. Our original idea was to have Stacey Leigh talking to an unknown person in a room that looks like an interrogating room for the scene where it is Stacey Leigh's narrative; through the course of the production we have had to keep re-filming these scenes because of them not being realistic and up to acting quality also because of our re-think of the ending.
So at first we had the interrogating room, however we changed that to Stacey Leigh looking and talking to the camera to fit the ending of the film but due to circumstances of those shots we decided to have Stacey Leigh sat in a car and looking out of the window while a voice over ran over the shot.

3. Due to us changing the narrative shots and instead having a running voice over the film, this meant had more access to produce different shots for the voice over to run over, however this meant we needed to create a new ending to film which had the same effect on the audience as did the original idea. For the last few minutes of the short film we created new shots for the voice over to run over instead of sticking to the car shots.

Instead we had Stacey Leigh looking over a bridge in a park looking at her phone then walking off into the distance while the voice over is on, this fades out to black to the ending.







We decided that the ending should be Stacey Leigh on the streets, alone and in the cold, to fit the part of the voice over in which was going to b played over it. So instead of the TV - Death ending, we decided that it should be left on a cliff hanger with Stacey Leigh's step dad - Baz ringing her mobile phone, and her rejecting the call, with the last piece of voice over running to a black screen.