The prop we were given to use was a mug of tea. However we will change this to a flask of tea instead because the character drinking it will be outside so we feel that a flask is more appropriate. Another prop we will use is a newspaper for Herbie to make a boat out of.

We stuck with these prop ideas and used only a mug of tea and a newspaper. After we had filmed the scenes and put the clips together we realised that the headline on the cover of the news paper is about the Syrian crisis. Herbie takes the newspaper and creates paper boats and sends them away on the water. We are concerned that someone may read into this message and think that there was an underlying racist message that we were trying to convey. However we were not actually aware of these connotations and definitely did not set it up purposefully.