Props: Adam

our group only used one prop within our film apart from the costumes and that was the noose.

A noose is a loop at the end of a rope in which the knot slides to make the loop collapsible. Knots used for making nooses include the running bowline, the tarbuck knot, and the slip knot. The knot most closely associated with execution is the hangman's knot, which is also known as the "hangman's noose". The noose is made of three things:

• The open end is called a Honda.
• The knots are known as hangman’s knots.
• The end that is plain is the hitch.

A noose is sometimes left as a message in order to intimidate people. Its meaning is derived from its use in segregation era lynching. It is illegal to display a noose in a threatening manner in some states such as New York and Connecticut. Hanging is where someone is suspended in the air by a rope around their neck. It was also known as crucifixion and death by impalement.

There are four ways of hanging some one with a noose, these are:

•  Suspension, like the short drop, causes death by using the weight of the body to tighten the trachea with the noose.
• The short drop is performed by placing the condemned prisoner on the back of a cart, horse, or other vehicle, with the noose around the neck. The object is then moved away, leaving the person dangling from the rope.
• The standard drop, which arrived as calculated in English units, involves a drop of between 4 and 6 feet (1.2 and 1.8 m) and came into use from 1866.
• Long drop also known as the measured drop, was introduced to Britain in 1872 by William Marwood as a scientific advancement to the standard drop. Instead of everyone falling the same standard distance, the person's height and weight were used to determine how much slack would be provided in the rope so that the distance dropped would be enough to ensure that the neck was broken, but not so much that the person was decapitated. The careful placement of the eye or knot of the noose.