Killer Doll

The 'killer doll' featured in our film opening

Sam and I bought this doll with it looking completely child friendly and the first thing we did in order to change that is burn it's right arm and the side of it's face. Because of the burn marks, we think it would be a good idea to make our slasher opening look as if  it's a sequel and we are thinking about opening the scene with a shot of the doll being buried and the person burying it looking old fashioned, possibly wearing a suit and top hat, then checking a pocket watch. By doing this, the suit, top hat and pocket watch will connote to the shot being set around 100 years ago and therefore the doll being very old which adds to its scariness. To bring the doll back, Sam and I are going to try and film a dog digging in the ground and then bringing the doll into the house; it will be difficult to make a dog do this but we'll try our best and we think it'll be a very effective way of bringing the killer doll back to life. The dog will then bring the doll into the house and then drop it onto the wire which will then electrocute it and bring it back to life.

Sam and I, after burning the doll, nailed a bolt into its head just to make it look scary, this could connote to someone having tried to kill it in a past life and the blood stains signify that the doll has endured pain or caused pain to someone, the bandage also connotes to the doll having endured pain, possibly from someone trying to harm it. The doll is quite hard to make move, the legs aren't very flexible. However, Sam and I have filmed some practice footage of the doll walking and it will be uploaded on Friday so that we can receive feedback on it. We are filming and editing tomorrow in order to get our 2nd rough cut finished. This doll can perform the same movements than the original action figure can, however it is harder and may look less effective. This doll though does look a lot scarier than our original action figure and we're happy with how it looks.

The only problem with this doll is that it doesn't relate to the colour red at all, apart from the blood and this isn't enough to keep the name Red Run. 'Red Run' however is a working title and can be changed at any time, the only problem is that Sam and I don't have any other names that we have thought of so we are going to concentrate more on trying to get some red clothes for the doll which we can rip up and make to look scary to fit the slasher genre. It was suggested that we dye the blue pants that the doll is wearing red so that we can keep the name and we are considering this.