Planning - props

In terms of props for our opening, it wasn't our main priority in terms of importance. The props were an important part of the narrative and we decided early on during the planning about which props to use for our film opening.

One prop we decided to use for the antagonists weapon was a woodcutters axe; 

We decided to use this as the killers weapon as it was a prop that was accessible as well as iconic in terms that it hadn't been used in a slasher film as an iconic prop. This wouldn't cost anything as a member of our group is already in possession of an axe.

Another prop we decided to use for our film was a train whistle;

We are going to use this to create a distorted sound effect (non-diegetic). We decided to use this as it linked into the character (train conductor) and related to the setting (abandoned train track).