Props

We need certain props to be able to create a realism in the opening sequence. Some props that we needed were:

• Fake Guns
• Fake Knife
• Plain White Mask
• Fake Blood

Fake Blood:

We needed fake blood to create certain effects in our film.  We looked at the use of fake blood in different films and then tried to find a brand of fake blood which emulated, the fake blood we saw in films. We looked at films which used fake blood really well like American Psycho, Dawn of the Dead and Resevoir Dogs.

Fake Guns and Knives
A film in a genre like ours always needs weapons to emphasise different characteristics which represent themes in our films. Weapons like guns and knifes are needed in our film mainly due to our film being in the crime/action genre, and typically these films have weapons like these in them. We needed the weapons to look real in our film to be able to take the film seriously. We took inspiration from films like Cariltos Way, Hitman and Scream in terms of weapons.

PlainWhite Mask

We wanted our killer to have a mask but stay unique. We looked at films who had unique simple masks which still created fear. After looking at examples like Scream, Friday the 13th and Saw and decided to go with a plain white mask as we believed as the lack of colour and emotion given from the mask makes our cold hearted killer even more horrifying. 

Fake Blood

Fake Knife

Fake Gun

We believe using these props would help the audience to establish our genre as fake knife and gun are mostly used in our influences such as Godfather, American Psycho and Hitman. This also relates to our theme of violence and crime.