A great Prop!

A prop is anything you may use in the scene. There is no such thing as a great prop or a bad prop.. A prop is just a prop. Lets take a book for instance. If the book is in a scene with you and you are reading the book then it is just a book. "If" you are truly reading it. As soon as you act like your reading and are just skimming the pages or aren't truly reading, your just holding the book to act like your reading... Then it is a BAD prop. Because now I am watching you fake read, and that bothers me. That is not truly living, that is bad acting. A prop should never be more important than you. If the prop becomes more important than you or the story line, then you are not using it correctly..