Changes To The Storyboard

After going through our idea, we realised that we needed something that links the opening to the rest of the film to engage the audience and make them want to continue watching. The plan was to create a flashback that hints to the audience why she is in the mental asylum, so we brain stormed and came up with the idea to merge from one of the pictures in her belongings to a flashback of the patient laughing with an unknown person. This way it will make the audience question who the unknown person is and what the connection is to the patient so they will watch in anticipation.

In order to transition into the flashback smoothly we needed a screenshot from a video of the patient and the unknown person to use for the picture in the photo frame, this way we would be able to switch from the photo to the same point in the video, therefore creating the effect of her reminiscing on an old memory. We also thought it would be a good idea to have the bracelet from her bag of belonging to be worn in the flashback to add to the memories. 

So we filmed a few videos with the Mehreen and Nimra (from our media group) in different locations laughing and joking around. When we started we were using the tripod but it looked a bit too formal so we decided to do a few shots handheld instead to create the look of a casual home video, and it looked a lot more effective. So we uploaded the handheld video, paused it at a pint when they were both laughing so we could take a screenshot of a 'happy memory', then we printed it and placed the photo in the photo frame.