Set design - Campfire

In the centre of my set I created a campfire as it says in the story I am making an animation of that the animals sit around a campfire. I experimented a lot with different types of light to come from the fire to make it more realistic - tee-lights, torches, fairy lights, battery light bulbs. I think the tee-light would work really well but the flame kept poking above my actual pretend fire and i didn't think that worked, but the light it gave was perfect as essentially it was just fire. The next best thing i found was the battery light bulb. It fit under my set, so I cut out a small hole in the mountboard so the light coud get through. It gives out a soft, yellow light and is invisible so it works really well. I decided to mix cardboard and foam to make the flames as they are sturdy, so stay upright and also the cardboard flames will move slightly to make the fire a little realistic. I added some small twigs to the bottom of the fire so it looks like smething is burning. I also stuck orange cardboard around the campfire to emphasise the yellow light eminating from it. Overall I think the fire will be really successful and as a light source as well will light my set in a really interesting, realistic way.