Modifying the action list

Today, as a team, we decided to change the action of the opening title sequence a bit, keeping the plot and main idea the same. As we started to think abut our cast and props more thoroughly, we realised some goals we set for ourselves might not work out in the way we desire.

First, the part of the action, that is set inside the car is quite hard to organise. Not only we need to find two cars (an expensive/new and an old one), but also manage to collect high quality footage from inside the vehicle. It is inconvenient and relatively difficult to shoot the inside of the car and, thus, that footage might negatively affect our sequence. Moreover, we tried to search for the two cars, that would be suitable for our scene, but, unfortunately, we didn't find the ones that match our description in our area. 

Second, for the flashback we initially needed a 7-8 y.o. girl, that would look similar to our main character (the younger version of the protagonist). For this part to make sense, we were planning to make a transition through the eyes of the girl (therefore, we'd need to see the faces of both females). The issue with that is actually finding two similarly looking girls with a 10 year difference. After doing some research and asking searching for such a pair locally, we decided it would make more sense to modify our action list in such a way, that we don't need to see the face of the smaller girl. That's why today we made a decision of creating the flashback inside the girl's room right before she potentially leaves for school. As a transition we would make a following shot, that captures the girls from behind, which means that the audience doesn't necessarily need to see the face of the protagonist to understand the small girl is just the younger version of her. Furthermore, we won't necessarily need both sets of parents, but just the two moms (the real and the fake one). The real one will enter the room, stressed, in the flashback with the words "we have to go", which will then transition back to the real life, where the fake mom stands in front of the girl saying "honey, we have to go, we'll be late for school". 

As a result, we kept the main idea/plot the same, but changed the kind of footage we will collect just in order to make sure our sequence is doable and has a potential of developing into high quality opening titles.