Weaponry Issues

As a group we discussed the possibility of using a real axe when shooting as we all thought it would look realistic and eery, however, taking an axe out into a public woods would probably cause some unwanted attention from the public and most certainly, the police. We then looked into other options, with the only option of buying a fake weapon. We found this on a website:

http://www.partytowers.co.uk/fake-weapons-guns-swords/plastic-axe-fake-weapon-fancy-dress-accessory.html

This is the only realistic looking axe we could find. The advantages were that it was a cheap price- £2.49 however, it still was not realistic enough to create that scare factor for our audience.
http://struts.co.uk/party-fancy-dress-shop/index.php?main_page=product_info&products_id=1222&ref=1

 We considered changing our weapon and looked into buying a fake chainsaw. This seemed more promising however we realised that we could not wait for delivery if we wanted to film the day we had planned.

As a result we came to the conclusion we would use a fake knife which would still work effectively on camera but would be much safer and easier to get to the woods and back.