Props for Thriller

Our opening sequence only needs a few props; a rucksack, a toy bear, a note and a broken vase or pot. The teady bear will be used to show that the child is young and innocent, it will also show that there is, or was once, love within the family. We will use my younger sister's bear. The rucksack will be left on the bench as the child walks through the nature reserve. This denotes the child wants to leave things behind and become detached from his past. We will use Luke's bag when filming. Below are photo's of our props.




We originally planned on the viewers being able to see the note. However after revisiting the idea we have decided that the audience will only actually see an envelope, or a folder peice of paper. This is because we don't want to give too much away in the opening sequence.

We allready have each prop prepared apart from the broken vase or pot; we found that breaking a vase would be as stated on our risk assessment, dangerous. Instead we have researched into a classic production prop called sugar glass, also known as candy glass. We will produce sugar glass by using a cooking recipe we found on the internet. This is much safer and also suits our small budget.
The instructions for producing our sugar glass is as follows...
Materials :
Old saucepan
Oven
Baking thermometer
2 measures of water
1 measure of golden syrup
3 1/2 measures of sugar
A mould for your glass (depending on the shape requirements)
Steps :
Mix the water, golden syrup and sugar together in the saucepan and bring it to a boil on the oven.
Leave it boiling until the mixture is thick, with almost all the water boiled off.
Pour it into whatever mould you're using and let it cool.