Maps & Networking - Our Shoot

Jacob and I recently filmed how our shoot went by having a friend of our bathe in a bath of pink liquid. Originally the plan was to have our model submerge themselves in paint but after considering the risks and wellbeing of our model we realised that dunking our model in paint would be far too dangerous. We began to brainstorm what we could use in the bath to substitute instead of the paints so I came up with the idea of filling the bath with milk and food colouring. After doing some calculations we realised that it would cost quite a lot of money to fill an entire bath with milk so we decided to go 50/50 with milk and water. To our surprise the liquid in the bath turned out exactly how we wanted; it was safe enough for our model to bathe in but was also thick enough from the milk to look cloudy. Considering we had limited light resources (we only used natural lighting), I think our clips came out quite well. We made sure that our model was comfortable at all times by making sure a warm towel was close the entire time and making sure that the temperature of the water wasn't too cold. We also told him he can shower off and take his time properly bathing after the shoot finished. 

The idea of this shoot was to be very symbolic. By this I mean that the bath is meant to represent the right side of the brain itself and the pink water is supposed to represent the actual creativeness of the brain itself as though to say how when you think creatively we are literally submerged in our thoughts and ideas. This is why we had our model pose in different positions in the bathtub to represent thought processes; the shots where he is sat upright are supposed to show how he in the early stages of thinking creatively whereas there are also shots of him sunk into the pink liquid to show that his thoughts are quite literally swallowing him whole.