The most concerning thing for me was to sacrifice the HD aesthetic quality that we would want to produce from a typical one-on-one interview. However, the various Skype interviews diminish that expectation already. At this stage we’ve interviewed Mary, Carli and Claire at different times and with different people interviewing each interviewee.

Rohan encouraged us to embrace this unconventional and particular aesthetic to our advantage by using old found footage, extreme close-ups of the subjects faces throughout the interview and utilise distorted, old-school analogue footage to suggest as if the viewer is being hypnotised and “brainwashed” themselves.

At this stage, I’m in the middle of dissecting through Claire’s 1 hour long interview into an ideal time frame that will accommodate Carli and Mary’s story. Thankfully, Rohan has given us the nod and green light to extend beyond the 5 minute time frame to bring all their stories to justice and to ensure that it was to be concise and understandable throughout the entire short doco. It’s already week 9, but we’re definitely making progress!