For the “Make a Scene from a Horror Film” assignment, I chose to use a scene from “I Know What You Did Last Summer.” More specifically, I want to recreate the scene in which Helen (Sarah Michelle Gellar) is chased by the killer throughout the store with all of the mannequins covered in tarps. To recreate this movie scene, I would need many different things for the filming of the actual scene, along with the editing.

To recreate the actual scene, the majority of what I would need consists of props. That would probably be the difficult part. I would need to find a location for this scene, along with the multiple tarp-covered mannequins, a cash register, counters, clothing items for the store and both characters, decorations for the store, and people to play the characters. It would be fairly simple to find someone to play the killer because his face isn’t shown in this scene; he simply wears a trench coat and a bucket hat, and has a hook for a hand. Finding someone to play Helen would be slightly more difficult. Although just thinking about all of the necessities for this scene makes it seem extremely overwhelming, this scene and this movie are such classics to me. (This was one of the scariest films I had ever seen up until I was thirteen or so, or whenever I was old enough to know that the movie was actually not that horrific.)

The good part about this scene is that the editing wouldn’t be too difficult. There’s barely any dialogue; just short phrases here and there from Helen as she is trying to escape the killer. Therefore, it’s mainly just an action scene. It makes the editing fun and easy! The story in this scene is clearly told from the running and chasing between characters, along with the music. The music and sound effects play a key part in a scene like this one. I think the most appropriate music for this scene would be the suspenseful, slow-at-first-then-speeds-up-and-gets-louder type of song. Although this isn’t something I would really need to edit, I think the silence in the scene also plays a huge part. It builds suspense, and makes the scene much more spooky!