My first attempt (home)

In order to fully understand what I will be doing during the filming of my video, I had a few attempts at home. This allowed me to get and idea of timings and movements, therefore the filming process will be shorter and easier. 

I first set it up on my dinning room table but found the sunlight caused a reflection on the glass, I then changed to a darker area with the light coming from behind the white backdrop (paper). I also decided to use the colours red and yellow in my experiment as they were the brightest and i would be able to see more clearly how and what I am doing.

When first recording I found that the focus was more difficult than first thought, even though I was recording on my phone and not a professional digital camera, the focus would emphasise the wrong parts. Additionally in my first few attempts I wanted to get used to putting in the in the cylinders, I therefore began by simply squeezing the pipette and watching the effect.

I then decided to experiment with where to drop the ink in, my first video shows both colours being dropped from a centimetre apart, the second demonstrates the pipettes being held at either end of the top of the cylinder. 

 

From this I then decided to play around with glass placements; next to each other than placing one glass in front of the other., dropping yellow in one and red in the other. The created a sort of sunset effect, however by directly placing on in front of the other you couldn't see the red fully. Due to this I the placed the glasses slightly differently, one was still in front of the other however, they were pulled to either side slightly - the result was a lot better than the first. 

 Following this I then went on to play experiment with focus and spinning the ink; I wanted to create a different effect and see how I could focus on different areas. Although the first didn't focus on a specific part, I was able to capture the spinning effect I desired. The second however,did focus in a way that in the final video I could use it to emphasise a certain beat during the numbing atmosphere. 

I also took some pictures while dropping ink in the cylinders, just to capture what was happening as I did so;