Props - Planning and Research

We began looking for props and started by looking at our influences. We created a video to show some of the films which share themes and genre with our film and the props they used. Below is our video:

We looked at films such as: The Godfather Part 1, Casino, American Gangster, The Departed, Scarface, Goodfellas, Resevoir Dogs and The Iceman. We also looked at the TV Series 'Sopranos'. We found all of these films and TV series use a common prop of guns. From this we knew we would have to include many fake guns.

We also planned to use a fake knife in one of the scenes after seeing the clip from Goodfellas. We believed the knife would make the character using it more terrifying as it gives a slow and painful death. Also we really liked the idea of the gas can and lighter and decided to buy those props to use in a scene in our film.

We also wanted to have a strangling scene in our film but were not sure whether to use a plastic bag like Casino did or have wire like Sopranos and The Godfather. We decided we would go with the wire as it was less dangerous and our actor being strangling would not have to apply much force. when wrapping it around the neck of his victim.

Props to get:
Fake Guns x4
Fake Knife
Jerry Can
Lighter
Wire