Trial Day - Wednesday 9th May

Having baked most of the gingerbread men, George and I decided it would be a good idea to begin photographing, just to make sure that our storyline flowed. So, we chose certain sections from the storyline, outlining them in our To Do List:

To make it seem as if they were walking, we stuck bluetack to their feet, swinging them slightly, left foot then right.

In the clip we are going to have the gingerbread men pushing the ingredients, but for the sake of this tester we did it without, just so that we knew at what increments to push them forward each time, ensuring the result was smooth.

Since the sitting position was taken out, due to unsatisfactory results previously, I wanted to make sure that the other way of them standing – slowly rising while remaining in the standing position – was still smooth enough.

Once they rise from the tray there is a clip of the army walking towards the camera, an aspect we wanted to try out.

Finally, because they walk differently to the larger gingerbread men, we wanted to see how the army looked. This took up the majority of our time because of the large amount of switches. It went from the left leg being forward, to them standing still, to the right foot and then still once again. Not only were there a large number of switches, the distance they travelled was minimal, so that requires even more work, after all we would like them to cross the whole screen.