Our Adaptations

After reviewing our plans and our storyline for 'The Wring', we have made a few changes:

• We have decided to add in a pre-scene to our film opening, so that we give the audience some background context as to what has happened in the past so that they understand why the protagonist does certain things in the getting ready scene (e.g. finding her marriage certificate and quickly slamming it back into a drawer to shut out her past).
• We have decided to call the film 'The Ring' without the 'W'. This is because we felt that it was too much of a pun and could contradict the genre of the film and be too comedic as opposed to its real meaning: the 'ring' signifying that the ruby ring is an important element of the film and the 'w' to imply death- death by 'wringing' someone's neck.
• Because we are adding in the pre-scene, we have made a decision to shorten down the outdoor car scene where the woman is arriving at the tower, so that we won't go over the time limit set for this piece of work (2.30 minutes).

The pre-scene will be set at the wedding of the protagonist woman and her ex-husband. There will be close up shots of champagne glasses, and various shots of people, to show that it is a significant event. From there, we will have the protagonist going off to find her husband (after he had excused himself from the party to go inside for a few minutes). The protagonist woman goes inside to find him with a knife in his hand and blood dripping from his fingertips. There will be a blackout and a scream, then the title of the film will appear on screen before we fade into our original opening scene. The credits will be rolled on the screen throughout the pre-opening scene.

We were inspired to make this new scene after watching the film opening 'Woman in Black' as the pre-scene is telling the audience what the context of the film is so that they understand certain character's motives and actions. (skip to 0.12)

Another film which has a simple but effective pre-opening scene is sinister: it is filmed all in one camera angle, and supposedly all in one shot- yet it tells the story and gives the audience a full preview of what the film will be about and what sort of atmosphere it will have:



We were also inspired by a couple of Lana Del Ray's music videos, and here we have created a small film clip to show what sort of atmosphere we want to create to set up the rest of the film:



We are very lucky because the Canon camera which we are using has a supported slow motion setting (MXF) which will produce very high quality slow motion clips, so we can make it look really professional.