The creation of a personal vision is a difficult and strenuous task to achieve when uncertain of others’ understanding of your own visual process and style. In order to stay on track with my ideas and not stray from my solidly orchestrated concept, the pre-production stages has relied heavily on internal reflection of my content and the aesthetic I wish to communicate, along with writing and sketching brief ideas that will assist in creating my desired image. When explaining to others my ideas and aims, I have found it somewhat difficult to get across what my final piece will look like and the symbolism behind the frames and placement – or lack of – in relation to my concept of what is being excluded from the frame. Due to this barrier of understanding and communication, over the past week I have been concerned with how complicated my ideas may appear to anyone that does not possess the original and progressive artistic thoughts that I do. This has encouraged me to simplify the brief of my idea – individual shots of elements within a scene (characters and objects), followed by a zoom out of the entire scene where frames are situated around these elements to outline where they came from. This outlines the out of frame – with is not included and what needs to be understood by audiences.

By simplistically collating my thoughts as much as I can, while I plan and organise myself for my shoots in the coming weeks, it allows my to concentrate on the main objective, rather than digressing and becoming distracted by small things that may not be an important part of the overall project. I have found that this brief summary that describes my project will not only benefit myself, but my assistants who will be working alongside me, along with the girls who will be acting in the short clips. It will allow them to properly understand what the final image will hopefully look like, and how each of the elements included in the creative process tie together. Hopefully whilst shooting this week, all on set will be on the same page of understanding, which will ensure an enjoyable, stress free and productive environment.