Photography Final Piece Evaluation - Physical Abuse

For my photography final piece, i took three photos with a digital camera, on normal settings, and later edited them in photoscape. On the main photo i used, i edited it into black and white, apart from the blood on the rolling pin. I didn't layer effects on this photo to create this effect, i just used a black and white brush tool. It makes the finished photo look dramatic and theatrical.
However, for the final mounting, i only used that one photo, the others are still saved on my memory stick for future reference.

The photo was taken in my kitchen at night, but the lighting wasn't really an issue. The darkness helped accentuate the image. Besides, whatever looked wrong in the final photo, i would correct it in editing.
The photo is angled low, i took it from the floor. It gives it a much more dramatic effect, and it gets the whole subject in. However, i would like to have included more of the background, including the door.

Then when i opened Photoshop, i had just three layers.
I made the first layer black and white, then the next layer, i coloured over the blood to make it stand out, and then the final layer had the photo changed to grainy.


I think next time when i take a shot for a project, i'll make the lighting darker, so there's more of a dramatic effect, and less to edit for the final edit.
I like the contrast of red against the black and white of the rest of the photo.
Also, we noticed in the background of the image, the kitchen was too 'clean'. To make it look more authentic and to the cause, it could have been more messed up, with splatters of blood, or clutter.