Modifying the Newspaper

After changes were made to the story-line of our movie, we needed to modify the news article on the newspaper present in one of the scenes. Since I will be re-filming my shot, I was given the task of making the necessary changes.

The news headline was the first thing I changed, before it stated that the teenagers were victims of 'death,' but this gave the idea that all three of them are dead which was suitable only for the previous story-line. However after the changes were made, I changed the title to 'mysterious attack' which broad and gives more room for interpretation.

The second change made was to the opening sentence of the article. The previous sentence claimed that three teenagers had been found dead, however since Amber is now the killer, the article needed to make it clear to the reader that she was still alive which is why the new sentence states that she is 'missing'.

'Two teenagers have been found dead and one remains missing after allegedly watching a homemade horror film'.

The third change I made was to the statement given by one of the victims' mother. The old statement was given by Amber's mother who expressed her thoughts on her daughter's death, but since she didn't die, I changed it to Kevin's mother instead, since he did die.

“It’s not just video games anymore, people have now began to turn film fiction into reality”- Ms Ahmed, 37, expressed her suspicions over the motive behind the murder of her son.”

The fourth change I made was to the character's surnames. The previous names (Reed and Taiwan) weren't very realistic since most of our actors are from an asian background and the surnames used didn't reflect that. We wanted to keep the first names because we already filmed the scenes where the characters address each other with them. Instead we fixed the problem by giving them asian surnames, with the exception of Amber who isn't asian and Kevin who's name was later changed to Bob as requested by the actor who played this role.
'Bob Begum and Kevin Ahmed’s body were found at the local cemetery.'

The last modification made was that I added the following sentence to the article: 'Amber Alves’s whereabouts has yet to be identified.' I did this in order to once again address the fact that Amber is missing and provide the article with a cliffhanger which ties in with the fact that the audience we find out what happened to Amber, what she is doing  and where she is.  

The final Newspaper