Following Louise’s lecture on The Art of the Interview, I had a really hard think about the kind of person or people whom I wanted to give insight into. I thought about the way that I wanted my audience to feel and the kind of information that I wanted to provide. I thought about how I was going to incorporate licensed or found footage into the interview in a way that was relevant and didn’t take away from what the interviewee had to say.

And then I had an idea.

Losing my best friend to cancer at the beginning of last year was the most emotionally-challenging ordeal I have ever had to overcome, but there was no one who was more traumatised by Ricky’s death than his beautiful parents, Connie and Darren Taylor. In the aftermath of his passing, Ricky’s parents started a foundation to aid teenagers in hospital and provide the kind of resources and support that Ricky needed when he was fighting his hardest battle.

I want to shed light on the hardship that his parents have endured since, the effect of the Ricky Taylor Foundation even in it’s early days, and especially the legacy that Ricky has left behind, and there is no better way to do so than providing a platform through which his parents can speak about their son openly and hopefully provide closure not only to them, but to me also.