Mise en scene of our Product

The costumes of our characters were fairly casual. We felt that to make this more realistic and relatable to our audience, we needed our victim to be like them and the murderer to be someone they could believe to be real. Therefore, our victim is wearing casual clothing (jeans and a hoodie) and our murderer is wearing jeans and a jacket. We felt that the hat would provide some level of anonymity. This would create an uneasy feeling around the identity of the killer and add intrigue to the plot.

The entrails we used, we thought had to be real to add a realistic feeling to the scene. We therefore, spoke to local butchers in our area and were supplied with pig guts (tongue, lungs and heart). However the blood was fake, as we needed blood but could not be readily supplied with it.
Also we used liquid latex to make the wound in the victim's head. We felt this would show a level of professionalism, as it is used in actual films.

We didn't use many props in our film as most of it was the victim running away. The only main prop we used the sickle that the murderer had. We felt that this was an appropriate weapon as it could inflict damage but wasn't an unrealistic choice; the look of the sickle suggested this thought. Also the shape of the sickle is similar to a scythe, which carries connotations of death.
We also had a mobile phone as a prop, held by Detective Dave, however this proved to be of little importance in the actual film.

Originally when we first filmed, we had more props (a mobile phone and a music box). We thought the phone would be realistic as it would show how the victim had tried to get help. The music box was playing creepy music and we felt this would add to the atmosphere of the shot. However we could not get these shots to fit into the plot so we left them out.

Ideally we would have used more props, such as police tape or pathology suits to make the meaning of the final scene clearer to the audience. However, we couldn't get hold of any of these in time for our filming (or legally).