We have remained consistent with the portrayal of the rape scene, sensitively handling it so that not too much is showed to the audience. It still remains implied, and we have changed some camera angles to make it appear as though Cecilia is being watched from the start. By filming from behind a screen we created a half-exposure shot to make it look as though the attacker is hiding somewhere, peeking through to watch her before the attack. This created tension effectively, as did the slow shot of her preparing her nurses tray with equipment , which made it more sudden and shocking when she was grabbed , and everything fell to the floor. The audience watches her from the attackers viewpoint as she walks down the corridor and enters the room making it more eerie and tense.
The rape scene has been filmed so as to show only below the legs which move, giving a clear implication but not showing anything explicit, there is also a sound effect of heavy breathing used to further the implication.
We added an improvised shot of a butterfly slowing moving along the window pane to contrast something beautiful and innocent with the attack which is happening at the time.
After this, we shot a scene of Cecilia sat on the floor distressed, she says the lines "Lord Jesus, please forgive me of my sins." This clearly presents the religious emphasism of the establishment, as her immediate reaction is to prey. It is also saddening as she clearly feels that she has committed a sin, or what has happened will be percieved a sin, even though it is not her fault.
We kept to the main idea of the interview scenes with Sean, however we did cut down dialogue as we felt that there was too much , and in the end it wasn't necessary as long as we presented that he didn't know who his parents were. We were futher able to emphasise this by the creation of a legal document showing that Sean's father was unknown, but that Cecilia was known to be his mother. Through this sequence we added the train station scene so that the audience could make the link that Cecilia was his mother, being sent to a nunnery by the head of the asylum. We used a doll to show her handing the baby over and then the transition of a train to show she had gone.
Some of our improvised scenes were created as we were able to find useful props which we previously did not know we'd be able to have access to. For example, we have used a dummy figure of a man dressed in old clothes. His body was realistic and so we have used careful shots to display him as a patient. We used a wheelchair to show him being wheeled down the corridor by a nurse, and a montage shot of another patient getting angry at him, throwing all the playing cards off table at him angrily. We also used him as one of Sean's victims, hanging from a rope in the sheds which looked abandoned and eerie.
We used a lot of canted angles in order to represent distortion, particularly when filming the head of the asylum, as this distortion is mirrored in his personality. We hoped that this would help the audience identify his evil nature early on.
We do however see parts of him being more human, for example looking stressed and stroking the photo of his family.
We have portrayed him overall as very sinister however, with the use of facial expressions and dialogue.
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