Props shopping

With shoot day approaching, we decided it would be best to start buying props that we would need for filming; it was a fairly simple task as we knew all the materials we needed could be bought in Leeds. We were still keen to try the idea of the hook being embedded in the skin, so we bought some pork rind from Morrisons (after a suggestion from a tattooist because it looks just like human skin in colour and texture), so that the hooks would never have to go near an actual person. We also bought some black card to cover the windows after discovering they let too much light in on the recce, and bought 8m of black cloth to make cloaks from for the extra characters. 

We also looked up fishing shops in Leeds, so that we could find some useful large hooks to create the effect with the skin. We found a small shop, 'Tackle2U', which was perfect for what we needed and the salesman in the shop, interested in what we had to say about our film, said that we could even borrow further items from him for future films if we needed - a useful new contact to have.