Final opening sequence

Evaluation - Sadia Ali

Evaluation-Neamh

Evaluation-Lilly Kadawo

Actual locations and audience feedback

1. Oxshott Woods

2. Guildford high street

3. Friary bus station

We collected feedback on social media from WhatsApp. This was the audience's response.

Audience feedback



Our audience had these questions because it was not yet very clear to them what was going on and what the characters significance was. They should have these questions as it is our job not to give too much away, yet there was not enough going on to get a picture of what was going on and what the story was about. We need to make sure we get shots of Maya and Ryan together to let the audience know why Amaris is trying to kill Maya and stalk Ryan. 

Rough cut

Expectation of our OS

Work in progress updates

Behind the scenes

Here you can see we are setting up the camera and tripod ready to film. 

These pictures show us filming one of our scenes.

 Here we are filming one of our scenes.

All we have left to do is make some of our props.

Change of Props

When Ryan bumps into Amaris, we were planning on using coffee to spill on Ryan but as coffee can stain, can be messy and is very hot, we chose to use water instead. We were also going to use a pen and a pad of paper for Amaris to make a note of Ryan's daily activities but because we did not know how to present it well, we chose to not do it. There was also going to be a shrine of Ryan for Amaris to praise nearer to the end of the opening sequence, which we chose not to do because we were running out of time to film and the opening sequence would have worked fine without the shrine. Finally, we were going to use a lighter for Amaris to burn a picture of Maya, but we were also running out of time to film and it could be quite dangerous so we didn't use those props in the end.

Changes to storyboarding

Originally, Ryan Wilson was going to answer the doorbell to Amaris and it would show Amaris once again meeting Ryan's eyes and looking intently into them. Due to trouble with filming schedule we couldn't get Ryan to answer the door and we had to use Maya. This was still effective as it shows how innocent Amaris looks to Maya as she lets her inside of her home. We were also going to have a much longer scene showing Amaris and Ryan bumping into each other however we decided it was going to be a lot of  unnecessary dialogue and it would have taken up too much of our opening sequence. Instead we tried to keep the initial meeting concise and to the point.

Changes for costume

In our opening sequence, we changed the costumes that we had first decided to use for example the cleaners uniform and the Ryan's girlfriends costume. In the beginning we were going to use a tunic for the cleaner but in the end we decided that she will instead dress up in all black because it is still smart and it contrasted the kitchen and it also captured the narrative theory of binary opposites. We also changed Mayas costume, instead of business wear, she wore normal casual clothes that still showed that her character was middle class. We decided to keep Ryan's costume as all black although more casual than formal. We kept it black with a white shirt because it kept his character as middle class.

Plot

A hardworking cleaner named Amaris falls in love with the man of the house, Ryan Wilson, who happens to have a girlfriend named Maya. Over time, Amaris starts to spend more and more time at the Wilson's house, cleaning and watching the lover’s relationship progress. At first, Amaris was harmless until Ryan plans on proposing to Maya, which causes Amaris to spin out of control. As time goes by, she starts to plot to take Maya out of the picture and take Ryan for herself.