differences between our screenplay and our finished thriller opening

Hi everyone, todays post I will be talking about the screenplay that we wrote before he making of our thriller opening and how it is different to our thriller opening now we have finished it.

First doesn't have as many of the shots that we planned to include in our screenplay. This is because, we thought that if we did this then it might look too much like a trailer or be too long which would bore the audience.

For example, in our screenplay we said that our thriller would open with a shot of the house that

'The girl' was in before going inside to the argument that she is having with her Dad. However, In

our finished thriller opening, we didn't include this as we wanted to get straight to the point and

start out thriller with the dad complaining to the girl. We think that this worked quite well as it

then set a more dramatic setting before the rest of the opening by starting with some conflict.

We also decided not to do the part where the girl picks up a photo of he family and smashes it

on the floor due to a couple of reasons. 1. We didn't want glass on the floor and decided that it was

too hard to put a realistic effect on it. (also the floor was carpet so if we decided we were actually

smashing it then it wouldn't have smashed very well. 2. We also thought that when we would have

added everything into our opening that it would be too long and probably look more like a trailer,

as we decided that we were going to add a montage at the end including the titles.

In scene two (The grandma scene), we also decided not to
 have dialogue with the girl and the grandma inside the
 house and also we didn't have them sitting on the sofa 
together. This is also because we didn't want to make it 
too long as we decided that we were going to do the
 montage at the end which included the titles. We also
 wanted to make it more brief and use something that

showed passage of time well.

Istead of using a long shot of the girls grandma' house in
 scene three (The morning scene), we decided to use 
2 different shots of the sky outside along with diegetic 
sound of birds to show the fact that it is the morning after. 
We blended these 2 pictures (one after the other) to show
 different parts of the sky, and also to show the passage of
 time to the morning.