Evaluation

I had a few weaknesses throughout this project, time management was one of them, I will say it was better than usual which I am happy about because it shows I did think about it and I have improved on it from my last project. Apart from that my only weakness was not experimenting/testing things enough, I am happy with my final outcome but I think doing more tests would have reassured me that I made the best choices possible for my final piece.

Overall I think my final outcome worked better than I initially thought. I do think I could make my work better if I had longer to do it, I kind of rushed the final piece towards the end which I am disappointed about but there isn't much more I could do, I needed to have more tester pieces so I could make sure I had the best possible outcome I could of achieved. Even though this may be true, I am happy with my final piece because the laser cutting aspect of it works as you can only really see it when its under a direct light which gives it the creepy feel to it that I wanted. I think my work clearly shows that I was inspired by horror films, expecially the film 'Mirrors' that I watched.

Final piece photographs

I prefer the photographs in black and white because I feel they are more creepy, however you cant see the colour of the print on the black and white photographs which ruins the illusion of it being blood-like. The photographs worked really well though because you can only see the laser cut hand if you put it directly under a light making it seem like its not there which makes it really mysterious and scary like someone really is there.

Scary Characters...

I started looking into who actually plays the characters in scary movies/books as they could be used as a reflection in the mirror...
- Dr Jekyl / Mr.Hyde
- Dracula
- The Wolfman
- Freddy Kruegar
- Scream
- Wickerman
- Leprechaun
- Chuckie
- Pennywise
- The Hammer
- The Jaggernaut
- The Jakel
- Blair Witch
- Gage Creed
- The Tall Man (Phantasm)
- Phantom of the Opera
- Jigsaw
- Clown (Saw)
- Jack Torrance
- Hellraiser (Pinhead)
- Pan Labyrinth
- The blob?
- The Exorcist
- Belial Bradley
- Jack Nicholson (The shining)
- Norman Bates (Physco)
- Michael Myers
- Characters from 'Rec'
- Asami Yamazaki (Audition)
- Jame gumb (Silence of the Lambs)
- Hannibal Lecter
- Damien Thorn (Omen)
- Grudge
- Otis Driftwood
- The Invisable Man
- The Ring
- Leatherface
- King Kong?
- White noise?
- The Mummy
- Jason

nightmares/seeing things that aren't really there....

I've been looking into what films contain scenes where things appear in mirrors, windows and other objects that aren't really there or show things that aren't really happening.

Currently I have found the following films....
-Mirrors-The unborn
-Black swan
-The ring (the original)
-5ive girls
-Bloody mary
-5 witches-The skeleton key
-Harry potter-Paranormal activity-Prince of darkness
-Ringu-Ju-on-The shining
-Nightmare on Elm Street 3: Dream warriors
-From beyond the grave
-Dead silence
-Candyman
-13 ghostsOut of these movies I only looked at three of them in my research. I looked at 'Harry Potter' because it's really well known and I'd seen it before.

The scene I am looking at from Harry Potter is when Harry is looking in th

e mirror that can show you what your heart wants, in this case it was his parents. They appear in the reflection of the mirror but aren't actually there in real life.

The second film I looked at was 'The Black Swan'. I hadn't seen this film before but I had seen the trailor for it recently and could remember a scene where the ballet dancer is standing with her back to a mirror but her reflection is looking at her.

The final film I looked at was 'Mirrors'. Originally I just saw the title and thought it would be good to have a look at to see what it was about. It turned out that it went really well with the work I was doing. There are multiple scenes in the film where different things happen in the mirrors which gave a great variety for my research.