Changes

In light of recent critique of our idea for our opening film, we will be changing the character of the 'Hitman' a little. Instead of him being a hitman, he will instead be a henchman; forced into his violent job by the cartel that murdered his family and took him in when he was at a very young age, the same cartel that are after Tom Longley, the drug dealer. He will be just one of the men sent after Tom Longley by the cartel, but he is the one that we will focus on for our opening sequence. This is because a seventeen year old hitman hired for a serious job has been recognized as being very unbelievable, and we want our audience to be feeling tension that is vital to the thriller genre, that they might not feel if the character is completely unbelievable. A henchman character, asked and made to do his job by the cartel is more believable because it is convenient for the cartel and he is not theonly one sent to do the job (which might not be believable because they wouldn't rely 100% on a 17 year old).

This will still be deliberately unclear in our opening sequence. We still want the audience to be left intrigued - wondering who this character is and what he wants so that they would be wanting to watch the rest of the film to find out, but it is always good to have a planned background story for the characters so that we have a better idea of how to mould them when we begin filming and acting.