Practical: Fake Cigarettes

As our main actress does not smoke and would prefer not to smoke a real cigarette during the trailer filming, I have decided to make a fake cigarette to create the illusion that the actress is smoking.

I used:

• Cigarette Paper
• Kitchen Paper
• Dried Parsley

I first cut the kitchen paper to the length of the cigarette paper and folded it in half, then sprinkled the dried parsley into the kitchen paper.

I then rolled the kitchen paper around the parsley until it was small enough to have the cigarette paper wrapped around it. This part was quite difficult to do as I had to keep the paper tight or the cigarette paper would not fit around it.

Evaluation

What went well?

• The cigarettes were very simple to make
• The final outcome was successful as they looked very convincing
• The model could smoke in the scenes without using real cigarettes which she was not comfortable with
• I also asked a smoker for an empty cigarette box to store the fake ones in to make the, look more convincing and the cigarette packet could be used in our shots

How could they be improved?

• Verity didn't particularly like the taste of the cigarette
• They were quite hard to light and did not stay lit for all the shots

Overall, I think the fake cigarettes were successful as they looked convincing and looked exactly how we wanted them to.