‘How are you, really?’ explores the experience of grief that cannot be explained in words, but through body language and sounds. Actions and sounds may be able to translate feelings and emotions that words are not able to. This experimental film aims to highlight the inability to communicate a person’s, who’s experiencing tough times, thoughts and emotions effectively and eventually deciding to hide their true feelings instead.

For this film, I used found stock footage (from ‘pexels’; cottonbro, MART PRODUCTIONS, RODNAE production) and audio (from ‘youtube’; SoundEffectsFactory, BerlinAtmospheres, Free Sounds Collection, TheRitchieTv Audio, Sounds Ifinder, Sound Effects, Sound & After Effects, NAMI, Roberto Miguel Girao) and mixed them together in Premiere Pro. The new skills that I acquired through this process is learning how to recreate a vintage ‘old-tv’ look using lumetri colours and toggling with channel blurs. Additionally, I’ve developed skills from experimenting on the audio track mixer which gave me pleasing results as compared to working on individual audio clips.

‘how are you, really?’ | an experimental film by sufeeya