Toy Guns

Due to the restrictions involving replica guns in the UK we had to be very careful when filming the narrative for our music video. There was a risk of us being seen by members of the public and them thinking that we were messing around with real guns. Unfortunately the only way that we could get around this problem was to film on private land owned by a friend of ours, although members of the public still passed through the area whilst we were filming. To get around the problems of filming with replica guns we had to make do with children's toy guns from 'PoundWorld' which were green and blue, obviously not ideal but it's all we could use. However we did have one more realistic gun from GimmieGizmo (£4.99) however we could not afford to buy enough of these guns for each of our actors so we only had one which the main soldier (Sam) who dies in the narrative used. This gun was bright orange when we purchased it, however, Sarah painted it black with acrylic paints to make it look more realistic but left the orange tip on the end of the gun so that it was clear that it was in fact a toy gun that would not pose any threat or danger to members of the public. We also stopped filming and placed the guns on the floor whenever a member of the public passed through and explained to them what we were doing so that they were not concerned. All of the people we spoke to seemed to be very happy with what we were doing and didn't have a problem with it.