Changes of the 'horror' characters and props

In our film we have changed the character that is meant to be scary. Originally we were going to have zombie characters, but we realised with this it would not look like a real film as we do not have the special effects/ makeup to produce a realistic zombie character.
Instead we stayed with the idea of the victim coming across a scary character and being followed and attacked, but instead we changed this to just a person with a knife that cannot be seen clearly except just before the title 'STALKED' is shown at the beginning of the film, but again in this shot we didn't want the stalking character to be clearly shown just to make the film more tense and mysterious, as horror films are.

 

Above are images displaying the stalker characters clothing. We chose to have this character in a Parker coat with the hood up, as this adds to the mystery of who is following the victim as it cannot be seen whether this character is male/ female. As most of our shots of the stalker character are either far away or from behind, this also adds to the mysterious feeling as it cannot be seen properly who this is. As the jeans and shoes could belong to either a male or female character, this also adds to the mystery of the film for the audience, as they cannot be sure who it is at all, making this character more feared as they could be any of the characters in the rest of the film but disguised to attack other people.
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As we have changed our film location, we decided to rid of the tortch prop as it wasn't nessicary because we now have enough light to work with and for the characters to be visible. We instead are using a knife to show why the victim character is afraid of the stalker. We use a close up shot of this prop to highlight its importance in our film, as this gives across what genre our film is. We did not show this knife in the light as it isn't a real knife, so to give across the idea that it is real we showed it in the dark, giving a more realistic look to it.

 

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We also decided to add into our film a phone conversation to clearly highlight what the victim character is doing (looking for her cat). We had a close up of the phone recieving a call to show its importance in the film. Below displays the screen shots of our phone conversation scenes (the first screen shot of the victims father on the phone, the second screen shot displaying the close up of the phone going off so that the focus is on the fact that this is happening.)