After filming for the first time, we edited our film and discovered that we needed to re-shoot it to add in more angles and shots. We soon discovered though, that the playground we had previously used had been fenced up and we were no longer able to use it.
This meant that we had to choose a new location. We decided that
Gunnersbury Park would be a great alternative location because of its size, playground and dense woodland. So, on the 17
th of January, we went to
Gunnersbury Park to re-film our Thriller Opening Sequence. Unfortunately, the day was one of the warmest we had had in London for quite a while and so the playground was filled with children. As we needed an empty playground for the setting, we had to think up a new scenario where the child gets kidnapped and murdered, without filming in a playground.
Here are pictures of the new location:
After looking around the park we decided to have the girl skip down next to the pond, running a stick along the railings. Then, she would climb up onto the railings to look out onto the pond and then she would get grabbed, dragged backwards into the trees behind, and in the process drop her rucksack near the path.
This varies from the original plan as the railings are used instead of the swing for the girl to be grabbed from, and the bag is used in the place of the shoe to attract the attention of the two girls. As an alternative of the two teenagers tripping over the foot of the dead child and all that is seen is her shoeless foot and leg sticking out from behind a tree, we thought that the teenagers witnessing the murder of the child would make more sense.
The reason behind this is that the mutants are supposed to be smart, and their murders are thought out delicately and in detail. Their murders are to get revenge, they are not just senseless acts of violence and so this gave the mutants a reason to kill the girls, whereas previously, there had been none. When the girls witness the murder of the Doctor's niece, the mutants have to make sure that their positions and actions are kept a mystery from the government and so, to make sure they are not found out, they have to kill the two teenagers. If they are found out they will be killed and they will not be able to avenge themselves.
It is an act of survival, not pure hate.
We tried this, but found that it was not as effective as we originally thought and so we decided, once again, to change the story slightly. The mutants, having murdered the girl in the park a few days ago, come back to move the body in order to hide it in a more discrete location. In the process of this, the two teenagers walk by and notice the bag. Hoping to find valuables within it they go toward it, and in looking up from the bag into the bushes just beyond, they unintentionally witness the mutants dragging the body of the Doctor's niece out of the previous hiding place. They scream, and the mutants drop the body and give chase, hoping to catch the girls and kill them before they could alert the authorities to their whereabouts.
This, once again, gives the mutants a more justifiable reason to kill the girls.
