This Project Brief I found to be extremely enjoyable. I was initially at odds attempting to work out who I’d interview, what I’d be interviewing them about and why, but then it clicked. My friend Callum seemed to have this rather strange obsession with Formula 1, and I thought an interview with him regarding this would be a pretty good way to learn about it, and it really was. It was initially in an informal format, wherein Callum is being asked questions whilst watching the Bahrain Grand Prix, and I was instructed to the fact that this would have to be changed a little bit. As such, I felt some more formal questions based around why this obsession with F1 exists to contextualise the live, watching F1, footage would make a lot of sense.

It was a bit more of a struggle to find some completely on point found footage than I thought it would be initially and I guess that is a good lesson to learn now, that perhaps if found footage is going to be pursued, an extensive mine of relevant footage is looked for prior, to ascertain the appropriateness or the logistics of the idea. I think also, in the post production, I made a little too much use of the transition, which was more out of necessity than what I thought would encapsulate what an interview is, and I guess that in itself is a lesson to learn that the logistics of editing between shots needs to kind of be well thought of to an extent during the production process also.

I quite enjoyed the process of creating something with a good friend of mine, and to an extent this feel could be something to pursue in future, sharing the load of the creative process with a friend, or at least taking part in production things with a friend that is present. I think also to an extent it is kind of necessary for there to be a slightly comedic element involved, though I feel like it could tread that line of whether the subject is in some sort of character (blurring the line between mockumentary and documentary) or not, though this was genuinely Callum, and I feel like in that respect it’s a nice way to add substance to a story.

I was pretty pleased with the inclusion of Callum actually driving, because in a way driving is so structurally similar to what Formula 1 entails, whilst being insurmountably so different. Though an issue there was the Time itself, as it was rather dark and meant that I had to kind of work around the limitation by finding an appropriate cutaway, though I felt that the cutaway suits the context of the piece