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The idea of visual story telling is something I was grasping at from the start.
I wanted to tell stories but I wanted to tell them with pictures.
From a very young age I've always drawn. It's not the most democratic way of doing it but
you only need a pencil. I think what I was doing was trying to make
films, but I didn't know what they were. When I went to school I started planning films
to try and make films but I didn't have any understanding of it. I didn't even know what
editing was, there was no film school you could go to.
It took me a long time to work out what a film was.
The way that I and everyone around me works is that we are looking at ways of compressing
the whole process down. So we look at having to do less all the time.
From the beginning of the very first time the pen hits the paper to write the script,
from the financing to the deliveries of the final stuff that goes to print -- we do everything.
These movies are quite handmade. When we made Film in England, Laurie Rose
shot a lot of tests. She had the idea of what if we actually build some lenses.
We bought a load of port caps and drilled them out and then bought telescopes from the
pound shop, smashed them and took the optics out. There was something handmade about them
and it felt like it was from the very early days of photography so we incorporated those
into the film. When I write the script I make playlists and
then start bringing in new bits of music to listen to. I have them on my phone and I listen
as I walk around thinking what could we do with that music.
On Field at the beginning third of the film it was music that characters could possibly
play themselves. But then it starts to meld into a kind of electronica.
and the more psychedelic stuff comes later on. One you've made something and you're happy
with it, then that's it. It's about you stop when you're happy and if you're not happy
then you shouldn't stop and if you stop before you're happy then you've got a problem.
You can't ever let reviews or people's opinions shake the feeling that you have about the
work you've made. If you're trying to please people you just end up with nothing.