In roughly a week it will have been seven months I’ve spent in lockdown, with only one weekend in June away from my home with friends. I think after all this has gone away everyone will be irrevocably changed. When I was younger I was very introverted, but the last few years I’ve spent more and more time with friends, so this has been almost meditative to live through. Reflecting on how these two sides of my life have evolved over the years. I’ve found that I think more about the decisions I make now, recently one of these being to almost entirely cut the amount of stuff I post on Social Media. Something I would not have done if I hadn’t had the time to think about it in Lockdown, and would have been very out of character in previous years.

All the things above have also lead me down a thought path on what I want to be seen as artistically. It was only a few years ago when I started my last degree on a whim that I just wanted to make movies because that’s what I enjoyed as my hobby. Now I see it as something more, a way for me to express myself artistically. That being said there are still things I want to make for fun, but there is large general shift in my intentions. Poetry is what comes to mind when gestating on all these things. I’ve sprouted an interest in poetry, I think film can be considered poetry in a sense. As it is more focused on showing things to an audience to think about, rather than telling them what to think. With Screen Project two I’m going to create it in a way that shows rather than tells. Toning down on the busyness of my development to here. I want it to be simple, yet still hold the same tone as the last project, hopefully superseding it in some respects.

I think I might just be burned out, but I still want to make things. Hopefully it turns out well.