I shot Amy in the studio last week. It was our third shoot together. Its been great to get to know her a little bit more. Its interesting to look at the footage, as the more we got to know each other, the more at ease her face and body became. In the end, she revealed a lot of body movement, with out particularly realizing it. It looked like she could have been a dancer in another life.
Amy:
I’d never been in front of a camera before so I had to ajust fairly quicky to talking to someone and thinking about things whist looking down a very close lense and being lit by a spot light. I did managed to feel the emotions I was asked to recall a little as I spoke, but being in such an unfarmilier environment it was hard to remove myself from it, athough by the second day things where somewhat easier. How easy the emotion was to act out depended for me on how recently the incident I was talking about had occured, the event i talked about for “sad” was only days old and very fresh in my mind, but for “disgusted” and perticually for “angry” they were years old, so although they were both very strong instances of those emotions i felt more as if i was distantly remembering how i felt rather than truely recalling it.
One peculiar thing was although I produce some artwork myself which I have always wanted to be quite personal (I am currently doing an art foundation at the age of 24) I found recalling emotions when asked very hard. I do have a wealth of exeriances to draw from emotionally, but, (possibly because of having only done so under therapy conditions), I am incredebly guarded about talking and perticually about recalling such things.
