At current i am working on a few ideas, the main being a film installation piece, i am unsure as yet of the technical aspect as it how to shoot it, my initial idea needs to be unpicked and the content and purpose questioned, i also need to just play around with it, do some test shoots to see how it works in the practice.
The central part is giving a voice to the women i have previously been filming (not nessaceraly those particular women but women i have come across). My previous pieces i shot, the 'Make up girls' and the silent '4 Minute Women' started me exploring individual women, i then started to think about these women individual and began talking to them about their experiences of being a women, this then made me see that behind the camera we had a story and in front of the camera they only had a physical and silent emotional presence. These women had stories, experiences and often wanted to have a voice. I decided i wanted to give them this voice but found they often became too animated and held back if the camera were turned on. so i asked them to write me a short piece on 'what it is to be a woman', their personal experience, i gave them anonymity so they could speak without inhibition.
Now is where i am at, I have the pieces of writing and am deciding how to present them. I am going to test shoot somebody else reading a piece or various women reading them out, maybe an actress. I also need to consider how to shoot it, initially it was a simple one camera to woman with paper reading. i experimented with voice over and with subtitle but this was not giving enough of a voice so i do think woman reading it aloud will work best for this.
I also have a decision about which pieces to include and which to discard, or if i actually should be discarding any. Surely if i discard any then this is taking a voice away, i am deciding who can and can't speak, i am editing the women? This is contradictory to what i want to achieve. The reason i am questioning weather to discard some is because of content, some of the pieces are what could be considered as 'sensationalising' or 'shock tactics' maybe 'stereotyping', maybe considered as directed by me But these are true stories (as far as i and the viewer wish to believe). Yes it is true that i have handpicked these women for their stories, their experiences to a degree, although i have tried to spread the word further than the close circle around me and those connected to these women. Maybe i need to keep putting the request out further a field, as maybe i want a more rounded experience of 'what it is to be a woman'....how do i get a facebook/Internet/blog to invite women to write to me, how to publicise it???? maybe this is a way forward to solve the problem?
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