Review

Review of the project so far:



Our original plot involved Lola Gray actually being kidnapped and focused on her being captured and tied up. When coming to film, using the altered script, it seemed to work well, however when we later reviewed the film we couldn’t match the clips and we felt the acting wasn’t satisfactory. Therefore we decided to further alter the plot, choose a different actress and change the setting.

            Changing the setting was mainly due to it being more available for our use and it fitted in well with our new plot. As the majority of the opening would have to be filmed outdoors we decided to choose somewhere rural quiet where there wouldn’t be other people around. We chose a muddy lane behind some houses, this gave a rural effect but also showed that the location had civilisation as the plot involves Lola living outside of London.

We changed the plot to focus on the character’s escape and to use flashbacks of the character being captured, this lets the audience get an insight of Lola’s thoughts- emphasising the psychological element of our genre. Another adaptation to our plot was Lola having schizophrenia. Now the whole plot is based around Lola’s mental battle between her past and the present. The film would be from the view of Lola and would show what she’s imagining and believing to be true rather than what is happening in reality.

It was difficult trying to find someone suitable for acting in our film as we didn’t want to experience the same thing twice and to have to start from the beginning again. Ultimately we weren’t able to find anyone who wasn’t in our group and as we were restricted on time we chose to use Alice to play the part of Lola.

With the script we wanted to have something which allowed the actress to be flexible and improvise since we had difficulties trying to stick to the script when previously filming. For that reason we decided to use a basic script which included the key elements, like the movement of Lola and what shots we would use.