First Reviews - THE BAD AND THE UGLY

First Cut

THE BAD AND THE UGLY

- "Darker wash and looked too innocent"
- "Make lighting darker"
We felt that after this whole process, we had made it believable through the lighting and time of day, so we didn't change the piece as such, but on a few cuts of the production we put a very pale dark wash, just so that the piece flowed.

- "Jolty camera"
We managed to edit the slightly jolty camera out, and replace it with a piece of film that wasn't as good, but jolted less which meant that the film looked better from a viewers' perspective.

- "Is it obvious enough that she has been stabbed?"
- "Show the weapon"
We didn't feel the need to change the first of these things, as the blood looks very realistic and like she has been stabbed. However, we did have to refilm the part with the knife so that it stayed on screen for long enough, but without making it look like an unnatural movement for a serial killer. The only other way we could have changed this, is if the actor stared at a reflection of his eyes in the blade of the knife, but we had no knives which weren't chrome, so that wasn't possible.

- "Change the "Presents To You" bit"
All we had to here is change the "presents to you" credit to "presents".

- "Why does he 'straddle' her?"
When filming, there was no way or angle we could film without some of the tussle looking a bit awkward or strange, so we kept the filming that we had, but edited in some more pictures being zoomed in and out of in order to bridge the gap of how the tussle happened. This meant that we didn;t need to show the serial killer killing his victim, but we had to show her screaming and him dragging her into the bushes and running away.




What else did we add?

We added a bit at the end where the serial killer pins a picture of his victim onto a map so that the audience knew he was definitely a serial killer, but without showing deaths and wasting more of the two minutes, which we had utilised most of.