Changes within the Final cut.

during the process of creating our initial idea's we came up with many to use in our opening sequence.

however,during filming and editing,we realised many of these idea's would not be able to be done due to time restrictions and our own skills at the software neccisary.

The first was the social cliques:

We intended to have 4 different groups of cliches for this part of the sequence (sporty,goth,nerd,gangster) but we were not able to have these groups in costume,due to not being able to get the resources necessary. Instead of this we had to simply use people in their normal clothing. But we realised this was just as acceptable as it still shows clark as a reject,and the surrounding people normal.

The second problem with these was the dialogue. We had problems trying to include it into the scene quickly,without the sound clashing with the effects and ringtone on at the time,so we decided to cut this out and have them simply stopping and staring at Clark as his phone rings.

The second problem was with the intended Clark/Sister phone scene:

We hoped (time permitting) that during the phone call scene in our sequence,we would be able to edit in a 'mean girls' style spilt screen phone conversation between the two characters. Unfortunately,due to time restraints we were unable to film the sisters home scenes,so we had to work along with it and simply only show Clark's side of the conversation. This however could bring a slight bit of mystery to the scene.

The third problem was the ending shot:

For our ending shot as Clark leaves,we have a zooming in shot of 'PARTY ANIMAL' on the notice board,to show as the title. we then intended for the background to fade to white and then for the title and background to flash alternating from white and black simultaneously. We were unable to do this simply as we felt we didn't have good enough technology skills to pull this off without it looking badly done or tacky.

The final problem was the script:

Originally,when we wrote the script it was rushed and badly put together,so when we went into filming we disregarded all this so when we filmed the scene which required a script,we simply gave the actor the rough idea of what he has to say and let him improvise. we felt the outcome was excellent on this,as Jack worked around the guidelines we gave him amazingly.

The way in which we helped him keep time during the phone call scene,was by having him actually on the phone to another person in another room,keeping with the phone call, to make sure it seems realistic.