Third Day of Filming

On the third day of filming we filmed all our shots of the melting doll. The intention of these shots is to represent the degregation of innocence in the film. To melt the doll we used a heat gun in a well ventilated area. We decided to tape up the dolls hands and mouth as this represents a sense of helplesness and imprisonment, this would infer a recurring theme throughout the film.
We also burnt and melted a rose. I feel that a burning rose is a very strong image and has very strong oxymoronic connotataions with the juxtaposition of the beauty and life of the flower with the harshness and destructive properties of fire. This would suggest a theme of lost beauty and this is metaphorical for how the characters once ideal life quickly descends into chaos.
We also melted the rose as we thought we could show images of the rose becoming gradually more disfigured as the titles progress. I believe this would be a good feature as it would give the audience a measured visual guide to the characters sanity at certain points in the film.