Things that didn't work/fit and the problems we faced

Plots:

There was alot of confusion between our group over what to include in our plot which made this particular category hard to pick a distinctive final idea. On the basis of this we left the plot to the very end. The problems we faced were that we couldn't get everyone in one place to shoot our film at the same time. As there were only four of us in the group and only one actor, we needed other, extras to be in it which was difficult as nobody we asked was around at the same times as our filming schedules.

However this did not matter as we wanted our finished product to be focused on Chloe's character but also her sister who is actually her sister in real life. Our original plot was that Chloe's character had gone mad at the idea that her sister (Aimee) had gone missing and presumed dead. She comes to the conclusion that she must be dead but thinks that some man has killed her. She decides to go to the extreme and hunt down and kill the man she thinks abducted Aimee. Our original plan regarding this particular plot was that the last scene would be of Chloe walking towards a small room where a man would be in there tied up and blind folded but the screen fades to black where you here the man screaming and preferably dies. The idea is that Chloe gets her revenge, which meant that the ending of the film was shown in the opening credits but the idea was to have the story of how aimee disappeared and how chloe lost he way shown after and then have the ending at the end again.

Although this seemed like an acceptable plot as it fitted well with the codes and conventions of a typical horror and it had taken into account the popular answers that we got from our questionnaire in which there were things that our target audience required, we decided against it. This was because not all of us agreed with the ending how ever plausible the build up to the climax sounded. We decided after deliberation that the ending was very typical and too predictable and went against one of our aims in which we wanted to make a unique ending and in general unique horror opening. Alot of openings to films show the end of the film first to give the audience the feeling that they want to find out  more and what happens to the characters, which we didn't want.