First Draft of The Wrong Turn

First Draft of The Wrong Turn

Firstly I want there to be a voice over at the beginning of the opening sequence to explain to the audience that Alice is just moving into the house and this is the first time she has been in the house for the first time. As I don’t think you can tell this from the opening sequence.

Re-Shooting

Shot 4 this is where Alice is getting out of her car and is going in the boot of her car to get her suitcases out. To reduce the length of this shot as it drags on and I think the audience will get bored as they are watching it, instead of this I will use various types of shots for example I will use a close up of her feet when she is getting out of the car, and a close up of her keys when locking the car door.

Shot 8&9 as this is quite jumpy when we see Becky walking out of her house to meet Alice. As we first see Becky walking out of her house and then we see her walking over to Alice but we never see her walking up to Alice, we just see her in the next shot talking to her, therefore this needs to be re-done. There are also continuity problems when we see Alice waking away from Becky heading in the direction to go into her house; as we never see Alice walk up to the door of her house we only see her opening the door in the next shot, therefore I will re-shoot this to resolve the continuity problems.

Shot 20&21 as it is quite dark and therefore the picture looks bad quality and I need to re-shoot this to solve this problem.

Shot 23&24 is bad continuity to the lack of natural lighting in the room and jumps as Alice is walking through the living room.

Shot 27&28 on this shot we do not see Alice walking through her living room door to head up the stairs we only see her walking up the stairs so therefore the continuity in this shot needs to be improved.

Shot 29 as Alice has just walked up the stairs and looks over the banister the shot is too short and does not create the same effect as it would if it was longer.

Shot 35&36&37 between shot 36 and 37 the continuity is not correct as of the way she stands up from having been sat down, as in this shot Alice does not look scared enough after having heard this noise and therefore neither does the audience, so I will re-shoot this to create more tension as Alice goes and investigates the noise she has just heard.

Shot 43 after this shot when Alice is walking around the living room I have diegetic sound playing to scare the audience and to make them tense of what is going to happen next. But here I am going to re-shoot and make Alice look around the living room and kitchen so she looks like she is looking worried and looking were the noise has come from.

I will also have flashbacks shown at various points in the film of Alice in her past, this is so the audience can see more of the protagonists past and know what she has gone through and feel more symathetic towards her. This will also add to the thriller codes and conventions.

I am going to re-shoot the end speech between Alice and Becky as it is quite dark and has too many shots of them together where I want them to be close-ups, so the audience can relate to the characters more.