True To Form was the only studio available that I wanted to work in. It was quite an easy decision; I didn’t feel strongly about any of the other studios, and I was looking for something that felt like a continuation of Robin’s Translating Observation studio, in terms of a way to approach and think about filmmaking.

Paul asked to think about what ‘turns you on’ cinematically. I’ve realised that I am mainly drawn to the possibilities of cinema. Things that are unique to the medium. Over the summer, I wanted to and inevitably failed to come up with something that I could work on. The problem was my approach; I kept thinking in terms of limitations. That, and I was always trying to mimic rather than allow my influences to naturally guide me. I feel like this course will help provide myself with a method that will overcome these problems.

I don’t know what I’m going to create in the second half of the course, and that excites me. I feel that after having weeks of experimenting and testing a new way to approach filmmaking (learning about filmmaking rather than purely making something), I will (hopefully) be able to come up with an idea that I feel strongly about. I still need to be more honest with myself, and have that reflected in my work. Ultimately, I want to be fulfilled (don’t we all).

I need to stop thinking about the quantity of projects. If this studio does nothing else but change my creative process, I will be happy.