Anyways - Production (filming)

Set up 

To film a professional outcome for the ident we needed a space larger than what we had available in our houses etc. so that we could use a freestanding backdrop, a number of tripods and also studio lighting. We managed to use a space at the back of the gym that Sophie works at as the room no longer is used often (fig.1). We hired out studio lighting and a backdrop frame. Having purchased two pieces of material, we laid out the larger one on the floor so that we had a bigger space to lay the stood up biscuits out on and then the smaller one was used horizontally as the back drop so that the video had the colour pink for both the floor and surrounding (fig.2). 

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Problems

Figure 1: The bourbons did not stand up alone in a stable manner as they were were stuck together slightly unevenly. In order to overcome the issue we used a scalpel to 'shave' the bottoms of the biscuits so that they became flat and could stand up on their own as shown in figure 2. 

Figure 3: The visual research showed that towers could be created with the biscuits and then we thought that we could knock them down using the domino effect. We experimented with pink panthers but when they were placed on top of each other they fell down and could not stay stable enough. We decided not to use this for the filming because it was too risky as to whether or not it would withstand the time needed and then actually fall in the direction that we intended. We didn't want the whole video to be based on one mechanism of dominoes, so we carried on experimenting with some different options. We thought that using a mug of hot tea and a mug tree we could create a mechanism that when a biscuit melted in the hot water it would then cause the other one on the other end of the strong to fall down and start the chain reaction of the biscuits falling over. The issue we found was that it was really hard to one attach the biscuits to string (figure 4) and then also having the melting work well enough to then drop another biscuit of a different weight because the lighter biscuits were needed for the melting as they worked quicker than the more dense ones. The party rings were easy to attach to the string as shown in figure 5, but they then did not dissolve very quick or if at all, so this would not be a reliable start to our chain reaction.

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