Changes to the trailer

Whilst filming the trailer, we started to come up with better ideas that we thought linked to the theme of horror. We kept the same ideas of the teenagers being rebels, breaking in to school, close up shots of them running up the stairs and a close up shot of the door handle aswell. However we decided that the writing at the beginning of the film was too much and may drag the trailer on, instead of the usual conventions of a horror film being quick and to the point. Therefore as a group we decided not to keep this idea instead we came up with an idea of an actual person (a caretaker) locking the teenagers inside. The caretaker in the end turns out to be a pscho killer. Because the whole plot changed, the title for the movie 'the rumour' wasn't appropriate for the changes we had made. Within the plot Jay goes missing and the caretaker ends up killing him, therefore we ended up calling the movie 'The Missing' instead. The two girls stay alive throughout the film, they create suspense by trying to find Jay and still fearing the killer. Moreover we decided to change the number of teenagers in the film, we narrowed it down to 3. This was because we didn't have enough actors to play the roles and we decided that the other two boys aaron and shaun wern't that significant in the plot. We kept the characters Jay ,Lallia and Tara the same. Although a new charater analysis was needed for the caretaker;

The Caretaker- Is a silent killer. Nothing is really known about him in the film except that he kills students for fun. He had a tragic past of his parents dieing in a car crash and had various foster homes. Because of his tragic childhood, he develops a mental disorder. This contributes to his horrofic personality and the reason why Jay dies in the film.

Other changes we made whilst filming, were the locations. We needed more terrifying and quiet areas to create suspense in the movie. Therefore we used some classrooms as the plot is based in the school.