WHAT ARE HERO PROPS? (In the Entertainment industry.)

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WHAT ARE HERO PROPS? (In the Entertainment industry.)

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WHAT ARE HERO PROPS?

A hero prop is any item intended to be held or used by one of the main actors in the film. These are often custom-made items. The term "hero" refers to the quality of the prop, with each one made well enough to be used in close-up shots. A hero prop can also be a product placement item. Both defining the action and providing the opportunity for a financial benefit to the production. That benefit can come in several different aspects. The product company may pay an up-front fee for their product to be utilized by the talent on screen and usually as a close up. Free product provided to the production for use such as water, soft drinks/pop, juices, craft service etc. In some cases a projects image may be embroidered production caps, t-shirts, rain apparel, wrap gifts with the projects logo and or departments’ logo. One key element is advertising. The product placement companies’ hero prop is utilized on screen, may use still photos in advertising their products. Particularly if it is used be a key character or as background imagery.

Many props are ordinary objects. However, a prop must "read well" from the house or on-screen, meaning it must look real to the audience. Many real objects are poorly adapted to the task of looking like themselves to an audience, due to their size, durability, or color under bright lights, so some props are specially designed to look more like the actual item than the real object would look. In some cases, a prop is designed to behave differently from how the real object would, often for the sake of safety.

"Hero" props are the more detailed pieces intended for close inspection by the camera or audience. The hero prop may have legible writing, lights, moving parts, or other attributes or functions missing from a standard prop; a hero prop phaser from the Star Trek franchise, for example, might include a depressible trigger and a light-up muzzle and display panel (all of which would make the hero prop more expensive and less durable). The term is also used on occasion for any of the items that a main character would carry in film and television (which are often hero props in the first sense as well). The term may sometimes be used in stage production, as many props from film find their way into theatre from common rental and purchase shops.

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