Looking at the observations that I have been writing, it is clear that a recurring trait is this inwards look after what I have seen. I have presented each piece purely from my own perspective and almost made myself the subject in some way. Although this is good, that I am reflecting on how I feel about the things I am seeing around me, it does make my observations a bit muddled.
In the Monday class, we each shared one of the observations that we had written, with the question asked of us “could you make a film out of this?”
Although a large portion of the room said yes, I found myself less convinced. My observational writing so far only had one piece which I felt had real substance, and filming it could feel very limiting by a particular method of filming it. I had not written about any ‘characters’ that I could claim, no events which I could delve deeper into and nothing that I could present without embellishing it with my own emotional response to it.
The aim is to have these pieces serve as inspiration. Perhaps the pieces I have already written will inspire me in some non-direct way in the future, but I don’t feel that way at the moment. Going forward, I will be trying to lessen my own place in my observations and try to find more varied things to write about.
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