This week I had a one on one meeting with Robin, it was really interesting. I almost felt like I was at a book club discussing my own book.

We talked about my observations and they’re potential to become short films.
I really struggled with this. When I wrote observations my goal was to write a good and hopefully interesting story, I was having a really tough time thinking of a way to translate it. It felt like to me I had two brains; one for writing observations and one for writing films. Trying to combine them seemed forced and all attempts seemed rubbish.

As I verbalised this I realised what a stupid predicament it sounded like, the studio is called Translating Observation, and I was having the hardest time with the translating aspect.

As we continued to talk I suggested the possibility of using found footage- it was a bit of a cop out on my part since I really couldn’t envision translating one of my observations conventionally.

Robin showed me a film called ‘Afraid So’, based on the poem by Jeanne Marie Beaumont. It was experimental yet still dramatic. The film utilized found footage and it was the furthest thing from a cop out. I got Goosebumps; it was chilling and wonderful at the same time. This example opened up the scope of possibilities of how to translate observations to film. I left feeling hopeful.