On the writing on the walls question

Let's address the elephant in the room period the one thing through this whole project that we've kind of been grappling with is it's kind of illegal to write on the bathroom wall. So logistically we've kind of been really stuck on how we can possibly film this. Through this whole time we've had a few possible solutions.

Possible solution 1: the first thing that we had thought about is either making some type of artificial wall or basically not doing it on a real bathroom wall.

Benefits:

-       We wouldn't be doing anything illegal

-       we would have infinite time from the comfort of our home

Negatives:

·       continuity

·       Realism

Possible Solution 2: actually draw on the wall. We would do this with washable markers instead of permanent markers, so that we could wash it off.

Benefits

·      Best looking

·      Real bathroom wall

·      Most realistic

Negatives

·      Potentially illegal

·      Morally dubious

·      What if we cant wash it off?? That would be real bad

·      We would have to spend a really long time inside a bathroom, graffitiing a whole wall

 

Possible Solution 3:  during one of Nicole’s group meetings Emma recommended that we used clear tape to write on a real wall. I don't know how we had thought about this option before but it's really ingenious comma and fixes a lot of the traditional problems that we would have with the other two options.

Positives:

·      Quick, we could prepare it before hand and then bring it to the bathroom

·      Not illegal!

·      Still allows us to film in the bathroom

Negatives:

·      Glare

Out of all of these options we gathered that option 3 was the best possible option. However we didn't really know which plastic or clear thing we would use. So we started looking for a few different options. First option we looked for was Saran wrap, however we decided that drain wrap was a little bit too sticky and it was also a one time use you can't really put on Saran wrap and then take it back off, so I take off a lot of the benefits of having that material.

We decided Saran Wrap was too sticky and would be too hard to move if we needed to re-use it

The other option was the clear tape but again this has a lot of the same problems Saran wrap and it also won't look as good since there's going to be a bunch of different edges and it would look a little bit incongruent since some bits would be clear and then some bits wouldn't. So the option that we ended U going for was having the whole door covered so that you couldn't really see any incongruencies, we thought this would be the most realistic option and also the option that allowed us to work from home and then quickly put it on and put it off.

The material we ended up going for

We went to Walmart and we bought this material. It ended up being  of being really long, but we laid it out and started doing some spot tests on it. We found that the sharpie looked really good on it, and in the right lighting you couldn't even really tell that there was some material over it. It was a little glossy however we didn't really think that this was a big problem and after doing this that test we were pretty sure that out of all the possible options this was the best one, period since it was still pretty realistic but it also prevented a lot of the potential downsides of the logistical problems that would come with actually writing on the wall.