Unfortunately, I didn’t get to attend Week 7 but I did have a bit digging around to do from my peers and of course, from Robin himself. They all gave me very informative advice and supported my cause into discovering what it is I actually want to film – essentially, one of my observations. I have never had the opportunity to direct my own work so this was a perfect opportunity to do so, along with the support of Khurram.

A work in progress, we both decided to go with my ninth observation and that is, my experience with blood. This observation both appealed to us in a sense that it was about the bodily functions and the sensation of seeing, or simply even thinking about blood. Khurram’s observations fall in line with this particular one which is why we are both choosing to do this.

In order to execute this task, I thought it would be best to start with a mood board, potentially a script and a storyboard. The first two are still in progress but for now, a mood board should suffice:

As seen from the video, I managed to document my actual experience, so there is visual guidance, alongside with the mood board. It does not necessarily have to be a replicate of the exact scenario – if anything (as Robin has said), I could even dramatise this observation and escalate it to a different level, depending on how I wanted to present this certain scenario.

From this mood board, I would imagine this project to get a little bit messy, involving a lot of close-ups to extreme close-ups of the talent’s facial expressions and body parts. This short film is definitely not for the faint-hearted because of the blood but at the same time, I don’t intend to darken the theme/s of this observation but instead, simply put the viewer through my own experience of blood.