I feel like we would have captured the essence of the novel much better had the acting not been so terrible. But what movie maker does not look back on his own movie and laugh at things that the normal person doesn’t know about. Even the most serious of movies has funny behind the scenes moments.

I am definitely content however, with how Dracula in a minute turned out in the end. Though still questioning our use of the green screen in a few of the scenes, I feel like the visuals turned out pretty well, from the castle gates to the decapitation scene, it all went pretty smoothly. Not there weren’t any bumps in the road however, like filming some of the scenes without laughing, and everything about adding the music in the background at just the right parts, there were lots of struggles we had, but we overcame most of them, and kept going.

I think the scene that took the longest to film was scene where Lucy Westenra (played by Mackenzie) was dead, and then came back to life. That 4 second or so scene took over an hour to get right, and I think the main reason was us trying to fit all three of us in front of the tiny green screen together, because if you notice, it’s the only green screen scene with more than two people, and because of Lyle’s height in comparison to Mackenzie, he had to actually be on his knees, and so did I, since Mackenzie was sitting down, and plus I still had to seem shorter than Lyle, because of the later scene where he is much taller than me. It wasn’t until after the first 40 minutes of re-shooting the same 4 seconds, however, that we came up with the idea of putting us on our knees, in fact, it wasn’t until after the first 20 minutes of shooting that we even put Mackenzie in a chair, for the reason of height problems. Originally she was going to be lying on a desk with a blanket on her as if it was a bed, but we abandoned that quickly for fear of damage to the table or Mackenzie.

If you noticed, Lyle actually portrayed three different character in the book combined into one. John Seward, Arthur Holmwood, and Quincey Morris. All three very different, one an American Cowboy, one a rich British gentleman, and one a British Doctor. Yet, as we realised, they play very similar roles to the story, all suitors to Lucy Westenra, all become pretty much sidekicks to Van Helsing once he arrives, and all three follow pretty much the exact same path through the story, so really it was easy to combine them all into one.

If I could do this whole thing again, the one thing I would certainly do differently would be adding costumes, because really, sure the Rolling Stones were British, but they weren’t around in Victorian London, they’re not THAT old. So really, it didn’t make sense for Lyle to be wearing a Rolling Stones shirt. So if I could change one thing for next time, it would be the inclusion of costumes.