Powder paint video

Filming with Powder Paint was so much fun. We were so grateful to all our friends for getting involved and getting messy. This is a video I took of a shot that we thought of whilst we were at the location filming, I really love this shot and we are going to colourise it to emphasis the use of powder.

Powder Paint Filming

Today we filmed the powder paint which was so much fun to do. Although the weather wasn't very nice we managed to shoot before it rained which could have caused an issue with the paint becoming liquid.  We shot at The King Centre Park in Chessington as this was easily accessible for all the people we asked to help us out as well as being a large open space that allowed us to throw the paint around. Unfortunately we were unable to film any where else due to needing permission to use the powder paint, so we were unable to use the desired destination we had planned which was Painshill Park. But this didn't seem to cause an issue the field was a decent backdrop for the shoot and we didn't have a problem with continiuity.

The powder paint worked better than we had expected it too and looked great in shot. Once we have colourised the paint clouds it will fit in to our film in the way we want it too. By making the colour more vivid in editing, we will hopefully be able to make the setting look warmer as it by the images it can be seen it was very dismal day.

Powder Paint Outfit

We are looking at filming the powder paint outdoors in a natural environment, so Katy's outfit needs to stand out especially against the background setting. The look we are going for is grunge clothing and jewellery but bright vibrant make up. We want her make up to match the colours of the paint powder we are going to use. The bright colours also look good with her complexion, therefore it will complement the outfit. This idea is to showcase her bright inner self which is nothing like the housewife from the beginning.  

The only issue with this outfit is the current weather if we are filming outdoors it will be very cold and this may show in her performance. But we have picked Wednesday 19th to film as the weather is supposed to be warm and not rain. This should hopefully make it easier to wear this outfit outdoors in February.

Making Powder Paint

In our first attempt to make the powder paint to use for filming we made it ourselves using cornflour and food colouring. This had its benefits:

• Cheaper than buying actual powder paint 
• More accessible for us as students without a real budget
• Easy to make
• We could choose how much we made/used

A big issue with this way of doing it was that we were not able to get a vivid enough colour as the colour would dull down any food colouring we used. For instance we used a red food dye but the final result of the dried powder was a pink despite how much food colouring we had added.


The other issue with this is that we made it a while before were able to shoot the powder paint due to our volunteers having commitments and needing them all on the same day. The powder did not keep very well and therefore had to be thrown away before we could us it.

We ended up using actual powdered paint bought from an art shop in Kingston although this was more expensive, it did end up looking a lot better as the colours were more vibrant and the powder was finer therefore was easier to throw.