Hi David Thanks for your response, and the amazing video link.
Normally I would go with the practical approach, but unfortunately at present I’m not equiped with a great camera (which I forgot to mention, sorry)
I also posted this question on the cinema 4D forum, incase AE was not the programme I needed for this project and was directed towards RealFlow, which seems to be the next best thing to filming. So I’m going to give it a bash and see if I can get something similar to what I am looking for.
Thanks again for your help 🙂