Wednesday 5th December

Serious problems changing ideas:
Well at the moment the footage we have from the two previous weekend shoots is pretty poor. The framing is not tight enough, and the acting is nowhere near the standard we need it to be. We also have some problems with the last section of the scene, the pan of the killers past victims and his victim to be, in terms of making the rest of the movie coherent. Add these to the fact that this weekend's weather report is very bleak, there is a strong chance we will not be able to shoot enough suitable footage to keep with our original idea.
Therefore we are seriously considering doing one of the below options:

• We shoot the scene in which the girl is captured by the killer.We make this section of the sequence shorter, and extend the killer's lair scene. However, we agreed that this could be difficult in terms of relevancy as to why we are showing a victim running from the killer. We thought we should start with a pan of the previous victims and see sections of their story, for example developing the killer as a photographer who gians the trust of models and then murders them.
• We completely change the scene and develop the killers background as a photographer. We have scene in which he takes pictures of models and gains their trust, and use these in the form of flashbacks and 'echoing voices'. Therefore we would probably cut the scene in which a girl is being chased through the woods as this does not makes sense together with this new footage. Only problem with this idea is finding a suitable location, and making it look like an amateur studio.
• We reshoot the whole scene with might tighter framing and better quality acting. We start much slower and build up the pace, revealing the killer much sooner. There will be several more blurry and distorted shots to connote the victim's state of mind, and we use a lot more diegetic sound to create tension and suspense for the audience. We then use the final killer's lair scene, devoted much less time to it, and making it altogether more simpler with no flashbacks or voice-overs. The scene ends when the killer puts the picture of his next victim on the wall.
  

Liam