Pre Production: The Ink Effect

We went to the tutorial where we discussed what we had done so far and what we were planning in the upcoming week.
The task at hand for the day was to find a tank. We had a few ideas in mind...
-Going down to Sheaf basement to see if they had any lying around
-or they had the materials we could use to build one
-Buying a fish tank

When we went to Sheaf and told the technicians about the idea they said that using plastic perspect sheets wouldn't work as the water would cause it to burst. They said that using glass would be easier but that it is more trouble that it's worth to get it made and we would be better off buying a ready made tank.

We then went and found a computer and checked the nearest Pets At Home store for tanks. The shop was pretty far so we looked a little more local and found that we could get a decent sized and decent priced fish tank from B&M Homestore. When we went there we found the tank but there was a debate as to whether we should use a large plastic container instead. It was decided to take the plastic container and if that diodn't work exchange it with the glass one.
We went to Lukes to experiment with how the plastic container would work and whether food colouring was a good substitute for ink.

The results were positive and thus we decided to stay with using the plastic container and get a range of food colouring colours for when we film the following day. The only negative was that the box had an undetectable leak. This was due two one of two reasons, one; that what the technician at Sheaf had talk us about Plastic not being built to hold a large capacity of water without bursting was correct, or that it was a defective box.