We originally showed our script to producer Becky Knapp (http://www.imdb.com/name/nm1172489/) who likes the main premiums. However Becky went on to say that the ending didn’t do enough for her and that she was worried the audience would be left unsatisfied. Taking this into consideration, we took the script and wrote approximately two more pages in order to complete the story. Firstly we needed a bigger ‘trigger’ for the character of Edgar to realise that he was schizophrenic. We therefore wrote the confrontation scene and the flashbacks, not only in order to clear up any ambiguity, but to give the most realistic partial of the illness possible.
We also need to show more of an indicator that Edgar was schizophrenic. This was partly because of our talk with Becky, but also because a lot of the people who read our scrip were not picking up on the fact that Edgar was schizophrenic. Therefore we needed to make it slightly more obvious that Ronnie wasn’t real. This is where we felt the flash backs would come in handy, shooting these final scenes in colour, even if it is faded, would show the audience a final reality. However we still wanted to leave the film on a note of ambiguity, hence the crash zoom. The audience are hopefully left wondering if Edgar is going to get better f become more deluded with paranoia.
Upon showing our later drafted script to some of the same readers, they seemed much more understanding, and in turn seemed more interested in seeing a final product.
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