Re-shooted Scenes

Rough cut killer's wall

We planned to re-shoot our scene where we reveal the killer's obsession and how he stalks his victims and their houses, because when we first did it we didn't think about the mis-en-scene in much detail so when it came to filming the scene with just 4 photo's with them being neatly placed on a cork board it didn't portray the obsession that the killer has, whereas instead it just made him look like a tidy freak instead of an obsessive stalker who's been watching his victims.

Final cut killer's wall

So we went back and re-shooted the scene with more photo's to make it look like the killer has more of an obsession and that he's had more than just 4 victims, and also instead of pinning them up neatly on a cork board we just used nails and pinned them up randomly to look more scruffy. Also we included pictures of the victims instead of just their houses so it looks more targeted at the final girl and the scream queen in the film.

Final cut killer's feet

Rough cut killer's feet

This is a shot of the killer's feet and we were trying to provide narrative enigma for the character, however trainers don't give a good description towards a killer instead it seems more like a teenage boy, so when we next shot this scene we used old black boots instead to give a more realistic description for the killer to him being older.

In this next scene scene we were trying to reveal the final girl and the scream queen however we didn't do it well enough for the audience to distinguish who was who as we didn't plan it as we should of, we should of had the scream queen being blonde and the final girl a brunette , however here we have both scream queen and final girl bruntte so we need to re-shoot this and find new casting for the scream queen. Also for the scream queen we needed to show her being sexually active and the final girl being the opposite and instead being more ecademic, so we intend to show this with the scream queen having a boyfriend and the final girl carrying books in our re-shoot.

And in our re-shoot we did include a scream queen's boyfriend and did a bedroom scene to signify that the scream queen was sexually active whcih is stereotypical of the scream queen, and to provide a binary opposite with the sterotypical final girl who isn't sexually active.

Re-shoot Plan.

This is the re-shoot plan for the killer's cellar scene:

Improvements From Rough Cut 1

Insufficient lighting.

From the feedback we received from our media teacher we've learnt that we need to go back and re-shoot and re-edit, such as improve on the scenes we did have for example with the chopping up of the meat scene there's insufficient lighting so we'll have to go back an re-shoot this with better lighting, and the killer also didn't seem like a killer because he wasn't aggressive enough with the chopping up and was to neat and gentle, whereas a killer wouldn't care with his swings and would be much more aggressive. Also there should of been more blood and squeamish sound effects to make the audience feel uncomfortable with this scene , so we'll go back and record better sounding and even put in some ambient sound to make it more clearer.

Also with the opening titles they need a lot of editing because there's just no meaning to them at all and there's some spelling mistakes, and it looks stupid when it says subtitle after each title because we forgot to remove this so we'll have to go back and change this.

RC1: Audience Feedback

With this rough cut we knew from the start that our feedback wouldn't be great because we had insufficient camera shots and were missing scenes that we didn't manage to get filmed. However in our next rough cut we'll have all our scenes done and ready for a full opening feedback.

But we did get useful feedback from our media teacher. Because he showed us what could be improved on the scenes we did have, for example with the chopping up of the meat scene there's insuffient lighting so we'll have to go back an re-shoot this with better lighting, and the killer also didn't seem like a killer because he wasn't agressive enough with the chopping up and was to neat and gentle, whereas a killer wouldn't care with his swings and would be much more agressive. Also there should of been more blood and squeemish sound effects to make the audience feel uncomfortable with this scene , so we'll go back and record better sounding and even put in some ambient sound to make it more clearer.

Also with the opening titles they need a lot of editing because there's just no meaning to them at all and there's some spelling mistakes, and it looks stupid when it says subtitle after each title because we forgot to remove this so we'll have to go back and change this.

However he thought that there was an improvement in our mise-en-scene ideas where we had the killer wearing big, old, black boots so we'll carry on using this boots for the killer's costume along with the blooded white apron.

Black Nightmare RC1

With this rough cut we're missing plenty of footage that should of been included, and we're already planning on re-shooting the scenes that we have included as they're not of the quality we are looking for.

Set Dressing

Killer's Cellar:

After

Before

We chose to use Ben's cellar for the killer's room as it was easy to adjust it so it looked like the killer's room, for example before we touched it there wasn't much there so we just had to add to the cellar to make it look more realistic for the killer's room, and to do this we used a big black sheer that was large enough to cover the whole wall and it just needed nailing to the wall. Even though we didn't fill the whole of the cellar like this we didn't have to because we only focused the camera on this one wall.Also we had to take the car out so that we were able to film in here.

After

Before

Then for the pictures on the wall we just printed out lots of pictures from Google images of houses that looked similar to the house we used in our film, this way it looked like the killer had previous victims round the same neighbourhood. Also we took pictures of our scream queen and our final girl and used these as well on the wall to try signify that the killer has stalked his victims.

Scream Queen's House:

With the house we used it didn't need much adjusting because we only showed 1 room in the house and it was a bedroom but it was only a short scene, however we did need to make it look like the scream queen's bedroom so it's realistic but we didn't have to change it round that much as it was already believable.
Then the only other thing was to remove a car from the drive so that the scream queen could drive on to the drive.

Script

Here is a script of Black Nightmare