Pre Production: Developments in One Week Later

Title

One of the changes in the our Idea is the title, this has come about through changes in our plot and story-line which makes our current title not work. The initial, "One Week Later" does not work and we are now currently using our working title;

"Control".

Changes

Our initial pitch was:

"Recently widowed wife struggles with grief after husband is killed during their honeymoon, however even after death she continues to see him as she refuses to come to terms with his death."

A few things that have changed are:

1. The couple are no longer married and just coming back from their honeymoon. Instead they are a young couple living together until lead, Emily, suspects boyfriend, Dan of cheating on her. 
2. Their relationship is not good. Before their relationship was good before the accident, this time we are exploring a relationship that seems good and turns bad when really, it was strained from the beginning.
3. Dan's death was 'accidentally' caused by Emily. Instead of Emily breaking down due to the slow realization of Dan's death, we went with the sudden realization that she caused his death. This fits more to her character and further fits within the conventions of a Psychological Thriller.
4. 3 Characters, 1 location. Instead of toying with the idea of having more characters, we decided to keep it simple. We have 3 characters, Emily (the lead), Dan (the boyfriend) and Steph (the love interest). I felt that by adding any further characters I would be simply over complicating things and by sticking with the three, I would be focusing more on my intentions for an in depth, character based story. Also by keeping with the single location and by using the 'home' as the setting we are able to further establish these characters by way of their style, possessions and living state. Also further making the domestic location a character in itself. By having the home in a rural part of Kent it is also plausible for someone to be killed and for nobody to immediately know about it.
5. Not a week. Instead of working with a week, I will be working with the course of one night through to the next day. I have kept it this way primarily with the reason of narrative but also due to the duration of the film. Working over the course of a week would not make sense now due to the narrative and duration of the film.

What's Next?

• Complete Script Draft 1
• Research Locations for Filming
• Look into Crew for Filming
• Audience Research.