The document summarizes changes made to the script and filming of a horror opening. Key changes included removing most dialogue to increase mystery, keeping a few lines of narration and dialogue. Costume and props were also altered, with the girl wearing everyday clothes to seem more relatable and a teddy bear and knife still used. Flashback scenes were changed to red instead of black and white to indicate danger. The opening was also altered by removing the girl singing to further the mystery and sense of mourning through her body language.

1. Changes to our
Horror Opening
(Alterations)

2. Changing to the Script…
• When looking at the final project, we can see that most of our dialogue within our actual
planned script has changed or have been removed. The reason for this is because we
wanted to create more mystery within the opening, and for the audience to start
questioning what is happening, so we decided to use as little dialogue as we could to
make sure that much is not known to the audience until the very end.
• The lines that we decided to use or continue using was:
Little Girl’s Narration: “Things aren’t always what they seem to be” (This is when she is skipping to the
church)
Little Girl’s Narration: “My past will haunt me forever and there is nothing I can do to stop
him” (This is when she is walking towards the grave)
Male Silhouette: “Sorry little bird, this is the way it has to be” (This is when she is being cornered into the
abandoned house)
Little Girl: “DADDY!” (This is just when the knife scene fades out, and the screen goes blank)
• However, when looking at our script we can still see that most of the stage directions and
movement have stayed the same, only some have been not used, this was because they
wouldn’t of fitted in with our new speech lines. So with the use of little dialogue this
helped keep the mystery that we mainly wanted throughout our opening and the stage
directions stayed planned with the storyboarding as well, only some were taken out
because of the location where we was and wasn’t able to film them there, or they didn’t
fit in with our new script.
Key:
Red Writing: New Lines for the Script
Blue Writing: Same lines from the planned script

3. Changing the Costume of the Little Girl
When doing the filming we also did change the way in what the
little girl Character’s costume was like. We wanted her to seem like
an ordinary girl towards the audience, making it seem like this
could happen to anyone, or any parent’s child, making this a more
scary situation for the audience to understand and watch. So in
the end and during filmed as a group we decided for her to wear
blue jeans, black dolly shoes with white socks, a white knitted
cardigan (Still keeping with the theme of white meaning innocence
as this was a main planned thing within our opening) and a navy
blue coat. We decided to use the coat because when filming the
weather was cold in we then decided to incorporate this into our
opening. It was fairly easy and we then agreed as a group that the
coat she is wearing was what belonged to her mother (Which links
in with “The Past Never Let goes”, she can’t let her mum go), so
she decided to wear this when her mother was murdered. This
outfit we used still linking in with innocence also helped us to link
this in with the Group E audience.

4. Props we decided not to use…
• When planning for our opening we did also decide on the props that
we wanted to use, these were a flower, knife and a teddy bear.
However when it came to filming these had to be changed…
• We decided to keep with the teddy bear as this was our main prop to
help portray the little Girl’s character, and we were able to get one to
use for the present day filming.
• We also still used the knife, as this was the male silhouette's main prop
as this is the main murder weapon that he killed the mother and the
little girl in the past events that we see through the flashbacks. So this
was a main prop that was needed for him and enable us to tell the
story with it.
• However the prop that we didn’t end up using the flowers that she
would use to go to her mother’s grave with. We didn’t have this
because we didn’t have one to use on the day of filming and as we
changed the script the flower wasn’t needed to be used and we didn’t
want to spend to much filming at her mother’s grave to enable more
flashback scenes for the audience to mainly understand the whole
opening.

5. The Flashbacks and Changes to the
Beginning of the opening…
Changing the Flashbacks to red
rather then using Black and
White/Blue…
• We decided as a group that the
flashback scenes should be red as
oppose to black and white or blue
which was an original idea that we
decided on to show that its in the
past. We then decided to change
the scenes to red because it would
make the audience aware that the
little girl is in danger as the colour
red connotes this, and by the end
of the opening they would make a
conclusion as to whether they
think she is dead or not creating
that suspense for the audience.
Changing the beginning of
the Opening…
• When we was planning our horror
opening we was planning on having the
little girl sing or hum the Itsy Bitsy Spider
song at the very beginning as she heads
towards her mother’s grave but we then
decided on the day of filming against this
because like with the dialogue, we
wanted to just keep the opening scenes a
mystery and unknown until the end, so
the effect of silence was created as a
mysterious effect. The silence also made
it though the little girl was mourning
because her body language helped make
it seem that way, with how she would
slowly move, and her head would mostly
be down throughout the opening, like she
still can’t get over her past events as well
as being a ghost being unable to rest as
“he” is always chasing her.