As a group we started thinking about what worked well in our teams Rube Goldberg model from the workshop. We liked the user involvement where the machine started from the door opening. Also our use of water, this was quite inventive and got a great reaction from people, it was quite a technical mechanism but when it worked it looked amazing. My initial thought for the art and culture theme was art attack, with lots of paint splattering, we realised we needed to steer away from this idea as it was quite obvious. We liked the water method so we wanted to recreate this with red wine in our ident. We were originally going to have a wine glass falling over but this could have been messy around the set. Many of our ideas had to be scaled back. To gather ideas we each went back to our houses to see what items we could gather to do with the theme art and culture. Went to megs house as we were going to shoot in her living room. Gathering all of our items and seeing what furniture Meg had was good to gauge the space in which we had to make a scene work. We decided upon a coffee table and a bookshelf that would be the basis pf the set. Testing ideas such as a house of cards being nocked over, door slamming. Our idea behind the theme of our set was a cozy living room set. The set was meant to reflect a person that would watch an art and culture show.
In preparation for the video we knew we all had loads of trinkets and things we could use for the set. So we each went and gathered everything we could to use for the video. I gathered things like fairy lights, dvd's postcards, paint, paintbrushes, magazines and other items. We took everything to megs house where we intended to film the ident as she had all of the lighting equipment and space for us to film.
We decided on a cozy warm room feel, dim lighting and lots of clutter. The more stuff to look at, the more visually exciting. We wanted people to notice a new part of it every time they watched it. Having the set sum up someone that would watch an art and culture program meant that we had an old-fashioned stereotype. This cultural stereotype acknowledged the theme but was freshened up by the quirky rube Goldberg machine. In order to develop the design we had to do extensive testing of the components of the Rube Goldberg machine. Components like the water filling mechanism took a long time to perfect and changed a lot over the course of the process. It started off on a ramp, but we couldn’t get the marbles to stay on the ramp so instead we just let the uneven floor do the job. Also the guitar part had to change as we couldn’t get the marbles to fall directly onto the guitar, so we had to have them running down it instead. We spent a day setting up and planning the machine and set, a day filming and then a day editing. During this time as a group we divided jobs between us to work as effectively as possible. When setting up we each sat and played around with possible mechanisms for the machine.
I also had some bigger items like a Persian rug that was perfect for the ident. Aswell as a big desk lamp that would provide good lighting swell as a nice aesthetic for the video.
We went round to megs with the stuff we had collected as a ground and started playing around with different ideas.
We started by setting up the layout of the set with bigger pieces of furniture. 
We then started adding in the details as we figured out how the machine would work through it.
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