Changes During Filming

A major change during the filming process was changing the actor who would play Michael. Barnaby, a student at our sixth form, was supposed to play this character as he fitted the description and would be available to film during the school day. However, his commitments outside of school meant that his schedule clashed with ours too often to be able to get filming done. Instead Lucy's brother, Matthew, stepped in to play the part and although he couldn't film in the school day, he agreed to film after school. He was also ideal for the shots we needed outside of school as most of this was at Lucy's house which was most convenient for him.

Another change we made during filming was to the script. We have very little speech in our trailer so it was important that it sounded good. The script was originally:

Holly: "Bad things have been happening to me"

Amy (voiceover): "So what's the problem?"

Holly: "Help me"

However, as we were filming we decided it sounded unnatural and scripted which would make the trailer seem unrealistic and therefore less scary. We also decided that we preferred the first line as a voiceover rather than a close up of Holly crying which we had originally planned as this fits better with the slow, calm pace at the start of the trailer as we want the tension to build up throughout the trailer. We settled on the final script being:

Holly (voiceover): "Weird things keep happening to me"
Amy (voiceover): What do you mean?"
Holly: "Help me."