All our Props

After doing our research and planning into the props that we needed, We began to get the props together.

We began by purchasing replica guns that we were going to use in the trailer. We found a product on Amazon which was both a shotgun and a pistol sold together and decided to purchase that:

We understood that these would affect the realism of our trailer and mise en scene aspects would not be as effective with these props as in real life guns do not have stickers saying 'Swat Force' on them. In our AS production we similarly bought a blue pistol and were allowed to paint it black with acrylic paint from the art department. We decided to do the same this year with these props.

We also borrowed another pistol from the media studies department:

We would use the two pistols for the standoff scene. Also one of the pistols would be used for the scene with the motorbike shooting and the drive-by scene. The shotgun would be used for the elevator scene. 

Above is the scenes we intended to use the guns in, that we decided on from the story board.

We then needed a jerry can (a can which holds petrol) for the scene where one of the characters sets the traitor in his crime syndicate on fire. We needed something similar from one of our influences where we originally got the idea of this scene from in American Gangster. 

The closest one we found to the one used in American Gangster we picked up from Tesco. 

We also needed a lighter for this scene and wanted one similar to that of Denzel Washingtons in this scene. We were lucky enough to borrow one off our friend:

We also needed a fake knife and saw for two scenes we wanted to use in our trailer:

We needed to have a wire that we could strangle someone with as we planned to in our storyboard. With this prop it was more tricky as we had to consider  health and safety greatly for this scene and decided to cut the end off of old headphones which we had as it did not apply as much pressure as real wire did. Also we found out that real wire could potentially cut into the throat of our actor and prompted for this option instead as headphone wires are plastic and would not conflict real damage.