At the group meeting we both discussed what we dislike in our film, and came to the conclusion that perhaps our film should only have 3 characters instead of 4 due to our Fourth actor was very unreliable meaning that it was not always possible to shoot when needed which automatically put us behind schedule.
We also discussed our location choice and realised that the abandoned house we shot our sample scene in was not possible to shoot the rest of film in and came to the conclusion we needed to create a new plan. We began brainstorming a few new ideas however soon realised starting from scratch this late into the year would be impossible so instead we would keep the general idea and theme of the film.
We decided we would keep with the same genre and the story that the group of young teenage girls play the Ouija board and one of them becomes possessed however instead of them stumbling across an Ouija board in an abandoned house which seemed rather unrealistic instead it was one of the girls birthdays and together they were making an home video found the Ouija board in the house as it belonged to one of the girls mums and then still like the original film the character 'Beth' becomes possessed.
The main difference from our first film to our new idea would be the shift in the role of the protagonist, we decided to enforce the idea of a home video using inspiration from our researched films Paranormal Activity Ciara would be a voice over reflecting on the video as if it was her memory.
Below is our notes we made during our group meeting;
We decided that if we wanted to complete our coursework we would have to start filming straight after the Christmas holidays and to guarantee that we would be organised we created a schedule and printed it off for myself and Ciara to keep as well as our same actor as before Beth below is an example of one of schedules that helped us keep on track.
