I definitely tried to be a bit more risky with this project brief; playing with audio and new equipment. I was never clear about exactly what I wanted this film to look like in the end, as it was more of a work in progress type task for me. A surprising amount of it was improvised; but of course that just made it more fun. For example with the interviewing I had a set list of questions in mind until our conversation directed me into a different idea where I’d focus more on my subject’s rebellious side.

The idea of calling the the interview “Ambiguous” came from the ‘one word’ exercise I thought of to get warm up for the actual interview. I randomly said a few words, then Charlotte would respond with a single word that she thought of first. I think this exercise revealed a lot about her without having too say much; which ties in nicely with the theme of ambiguity. I had so much fun with her during the one word interrogation that I decided to keep the recordings and use it as a way to casually introduce her to viewers; just like I had been introduced to her.

It’s also a great (sort of planned) coincidence that aspects of her room reveal so much about her. Such as the bursts of orange, the rainbow flags. guitars and action hero figurines.

I feel like I could have made a 10 minute video about Charlotte from all the interesting things. The time limit forced me to select the most significant things that from her responses and cut them together like they were one question. I learned a lot about cutting to the point.

Playing with found footage was a new challenge. I found that I could link some of it with what Charlotte was saying for example when she spoke about her fears I showed a snake even though she was talking about being scared of vulnerability.