EvilDeadChainsaws.com - Pt4 Chainsaw Backdrops 2015

[EvilDeadChainsaws]

Here is part 4 of my EvilDeadChainsaws photo retrospective, ranging roughly from April to August 2015. It covers the making of the three photo backdrops for the website.

Back when I ran EDC first time round, I had intentions to make a different photo backdrop for each of the three styles of saw. With the 'Workshed' being the first online, I began with this backdrop. I designed & constructed a full size replica section of the ED2 workshed set wall, complete with shelves & dressing. Some months later and I was looking at ideas for the remaining saws, but I decided against this approach as it was really superfluous to the main project, just eating up time, and just went with the workshed set backdrop for all three saws.

Second time round, I went ahead and made all three photo backdrops. First up was the ED2 Workshed background. This was just an updated version of the backdrop I had made before, although more time went into making it, and researching screen-accurate set-dressing. Second was the ED2 cabin backdrop, supposed to be the professors desk. Lastly was the AOD backdrop. This was more of a throw-away effort as I knew this would be dismantled and gone within a day. As of writing in 2020, a modified/smaller version the Workshed backdrop is in my Evil Dead room, but the cabin backdrop has been dismantled and some was trashed and some went into storage.

[Joshua Hawley]

Good Lord Rob this is amazing work!