Feedback from editing team

Once we gathered the feedback from our target audience, we had a lesson where we pitched our ideas and went through our sequence with the media editing team. We discussed what we could improve and how , also thinking about extensions to make it more of a thriller , to give more of an idea as to what this film will be about. we gave two other ideas instead of the ending of the female actress with the hoover being surprised .Both of these ideas however were rejected as they went against one of the most important things that we were told. We were told that we "shouldn't try to justify a lie" and that we shouldn't try to make something work that wouldn't work . After which we came up with the idea of completely changing our ending. We decided that once the husband returned home from log chopping that he would come in, see her , do the usual . Drop his bag , take off his boots , hang his coat , whilst trying to talk to her . Meanwhile she isn't replying , he goes over whilst she's cooking , hugs her from behind , slowly she turns around to accept the hug . In shock he looks down to  find she has stabbed him with the kitchen knife , he drops to the floor dead , and she continues to cook. We were told to watch scenes from two different films . we looked at two different scenes from "The Village" and  "Side effects" where a character is stabbed suddenly when everything seems fine otherwise. We found this ending would work much , better , with the suspense of him chopping , and her not replying , the sudden death would mix well and create a dramatic , sudden ending to the title sequence. Once we had clarified and decided on the final shots and scenes we realised all we had left was to secure a car , logs , chainsaw , axe and possibly a dog .

This is the scene from the village. from 0:00 to 1:50