Differences between our screenplay and our finished thriller opening

In our screenplay we said that our thriller would open with a shot of the house that 'The girl' was in before going inside to the argument that she is having with her Dad. However, In our finished thriller opening, we didn't include this as we wanted to get straight to the point and start out thriller with the dad complaining to the girl. We think that this worked quite well as it then set a more dramatic setting before the rest of the opening by starting with some conflict.

We also decided not to do the part where the girl picks up a photo of he family and smashes it on the floor due to a couple of reasons. 1. We didn't want glass on the floor and decided that it was too hard to put a realistic effect on it. (also the floor was carpet so if we decided we were actually smashing it then it wouldn't have smashed very well. 2. We also thought that when we would have added everything into our opening that it would be too long and probably look more like a trailer, as we decided that we were going to add a montage at the end including the titles.

In scene two (The grandma scene), we also decided not to have dialogue with the girl and the grandma inside the house and also we didn't have them sitting on the sofa together. This is also because we didn't want to make it too long as we decided that we were going to do the montage at the end which included the titles. We also wanted to make it more brief and use something that showed passage of time well.

Instead of using a long shot of the girls grandma' house in scene three (The morning scene), we decided to use 2 different shots of the sky outside along with diegetic sound of birds to show the fact that it is the morning after. We blended these 2 pictures (one after the other) to show different parts of the sky, and also to show the passage of time to the morning.