Assessment: Production

I had my actor in place to film on Thursday evening and they didn't show up and I couldn't get in contact with them, this meant that I had to quickly change my idea.

I filmed three different ideas:
-A hoover slowly approaching the camera through a trail of mess left for it, kind of like an approaching inevitable monster, as the camera was on the floor was meant to be something that would inevitably be sucked up
-Putting the camera in a bin and filling it up, hoping to make the audience feel claustrophobic before removing the rubbish and allowing the audience to breathe.
-Playing around with the idea of the sink that I still liked as a focal point, the idea of it going from over clean and pure, to it being messed up before being cleansed. Kind of like the idea of wiping the slate clean.

Drawing from the inspiration of an experimental film we watched in class a few weeks ago [about the man shaving blood and the sink filling up] I decided to keep the focus point being the bathroom sink. I had to improvise a bit with the use of colour, I wanted mess but didn't have any dark colours to taintthe water with to give that impression of dirty so instead drawing again from my original idea I went with Red like Blood. I experimented with Tomato juice (which I bought for the original idea) and blackcurrant mixed juice and red food colouring. It was incredibly disappointing that my actor went AWOL and what I had to produce wasn't what I had in mind, but based on the circumstance I am moderately pleased with what I came up with.