The Gun

          When planning our film opening we decided that the criminal should have a pistol. Obviously we could not use a real gun in our clip, so i purchased a cheap BB gun, with realistic gun style characteristics (shape, size etc). The BB gun was bright orange, so not very realistic looking, however I overcame this by buying a small pot of gunmetal grey, and black plastic paint, and painted several layers of this onto the gun. After the paint had dried, the gun looked, even up close, very realistic and metal.