How does the final version of your short film differ from the original idea you had and why?

Synopsis, characters, location, props, costume, script. What stayed the same?

In the beginning our idea for the short film was practically the perfect idea, both Sam and I agreed on aspects that we wanted to include in our short film. In a short summary, the idea was based around people being too interested in other peoples business on public transport, and a girl plays a practical joke on the other passengers on her journey - The girl was played by Georgina, a close friend. The first attempt at filming went completely wrong, as we were given a Pre-16 camera instead of a Sony HVR HD 1080i that we use at post-16. The camera didn’t allow us to apply the setting necessary to record what we needed to record. We also encountered problems trying to film on a bus in central London, as the bus would often be too crowded or completely empty. The second attempt at filming went a lot better initially, and we obtained all the shots required and more.  However, when it came to the editing stages of production we had problems log and capturing the footage we recorded, eventually we discovered it was due to the fact that we didn’t film in a HD format. After this we decided to change our idea to something as simple as possible – which lead us to the idea of LOL (: number 3; which began as a story of a young woman who murders her boyfriend and goes to a psychiatric prison. We planned to include the events leading up to her imprisonment, but this would have been too time consuming, so we changed our idea once again. Consequently, there were a number of variables that had to be altered, including all of the pre-production paperwork. The location and actor had to be changed, as well as the plan to have a female voiceover. Now that I am in the final stages of editing, it has become clear that my finished product will be different from the preliminary plans.