Up. Up & The Balloon Scene

The Moon is full tonight, the last of the daylight slowly fades to moonlight and inside we talk through the planned scene. As it's the scene with both the male and female characters we have a guest animator, Chris's girlfriend Jenny. Jenny was indented to play her role behind the camera while I get the female part and Chris gets to play the 'male' role. We also get the critical eye of our guest director Smithy who rocks up his directors 'sun' chair and makes some keen observations as we attempt an interaction where by the balloon gets passed from male character to female character.
Early efforts don't go well as Chris needs to 'light paint' an arm for his character so to convey the passing over of said balloon. But this proves difficult for him to repeat and under the glare of our Director and 'artistic' differences arise.
Cue forward to twenty minutes later where we find myself, Jenny and Chris with the remote capture and try take three. This time I suggest Jenny paints in the string to the ballon, in the hope this will 'suggest' the balloon is passed over rather than having any extra limbs.
RESULT! - This seems to work on screen and so after we run through a series of test shots we get to 10:30 and crux time. We vote to push on and salvage something and get underway.

This proves to be a good call. Twenty or so minutes later  and we have our scene done.

Balloon Scene 1

Ballon Scene 2