Marble Ident Practise/Ideas

One of our idents is going to contain partly something that we have filmed. Our idea that we particularly like is using marbles, this is due to the sound that they make when rolling and their perfectly spherical shape which makes them visually appealing, especially when you can see the inside of the marbles.

We thought that this test went extremely well, however we couldn't quite get our original idea, of a single marble rolling directly into the camera. This didn't work due to the surface that I was filming the marble on was slightly crooked to the side rather than directly towards the camera, this meant that I couldn't get a good enough shot of the marble. This meant I had to experiment and work with what I had. From my testing I found that the one that we all agree as being the best is the marble spinning, either slowed down or in real time. If we can get the marble spinning flat and not move around the screen then I think it could work very well as an ident.

AF