The launcher and the launched

In my film 'To the Sea', a trombone player stands, suited, playing towards the sea. His uniform is important because it marks his distance from the brass band out of which he has strayed and because it gives the trombone performance a greater sense of direction, contrast and purpose.

In the film I am planning to shoot, of an origami boat raced off the Berkeley coast, I don't know yet whether the launcher of the paper boat should be of equal focus to the origami boat he or she launches. I will most certainly shoot stills of the performance that I can edit to document it, but it will be important to capture the time based nature of the performance too - the time it takes for the vessel to dissolve into a sheet and sink. My inclination at the moment is to let the origami boat off the coast as readily as one might put a mug down on the kitchen table after sipping a cup of tea. Perhaps it may just be appropriate to have the launcher's hand enter and exit the film in a second.