Till Death Do Us Part

Our production sign

This is the logo that we have decided to use for the opening of our film as our production name. We decided to go for the idea of it being with a knife because we thought that would be a good idea to show the audience that this is a horror thriller film straight from the beginning. We used the colour red as it presents blood and danger and even lust which is what part of our film is about. At first we decided to have the red writing over the top of a white background as it really made the image and the writing stand out, however watching it we realised that the black background would probably look better because it gives a better sense of the film being dark and blends in more with what we are trying to put across. We thought of using the image as a knife because that is the main weapon used in our film by our female villain.

Filming the killing scene

We have been discussing on how we are going to film the killing. We have realised that this is going to be really hard as we dont know how we are going to make it look like she is stabbing him when obviously she wouldnt be able to get too close to him with the knife. One way we have tried it is filming the shadows of her stabbing him, however this turned out to be really hard as we couldnt work out the right place the lamp should go to make it a good shadow on the opposite wall withought actually getting Aveys hand and the knife in shot not as a shadow aswell.
We have been thinking about it and have decided to get avey to raise her hand with the knife in and bring it down but keeping the camera on her and not showing the victim in shot. We got this idea form Alfred Hitchcock's film 'Psycho'. This is a good way in doing the killing but not actually showing it because it shows that she is killing him but without the audience actually seeing it happen as it would have been very hard for us to shoot it so that it actually looked like her stabbing him if we hadnt done it this way.

Filming with our new actors

Filming with our knew actors is going really well. We have managed to keep on schedule of what we are filming with them each week as they are very reliable and we can get done what we need to get done. I think changing the actors was a really good idea as not only are we on schedule of finishing our film now, i think they work much better for our mise en scene. This is because as we are using Avey who has dark hair i think it comes across as much better because she comes across as much darker and mysterious when filming. I think it was a good idea that we came away from having the female villain blonde because she wouldnt have looked as dark and strong as she would with dark hair which is what we have now.