'Cold Breath' Practical Experiment

In our story-line, we have decided to include an extreme close-up shot of the victim's mouth. In this shot, the actor (Lucy) will breathe heavily and when she does, there will be a 'cold breath' coming out of her mouth. This will make our opening scene seem chilling and tense, due to the slow breathing and the 'cold breath'.

To ensure that we have an idea of what the outcome of this shot would be like, I decided to experiment and 'test' this shot. At first it was difficult to film due to the weather being too warm for the 'cold breath' to show. Eventually, the weather became cold enough for myself to film this experiment.

To get this shot, I filmed my model breathing on an iPhone:

Overall, I would have liked the breath to be more visible and I believe that this would be achieved by using a darker background so that the white breath and the dark background would contrast.

When we film our final shots, we would need to film this shot early in the morning on a very cold day to ensure that the 'cold breath' is visible.