'Choked' Production

Creating the new concept of Choked was much more effective than the initial idea I had. As this dream was provided by an external, I had much less understanding of the feeling achieved or what happened. My first idea was very much aesthetically based and little thought was put into it. I believe this was because I hadn’t done a test shoot and had the model for a week only in January whilst she was in the country. Also, I didn’t really fully know what sort of filming I wanted to achieve as it was still fairly early in the project and I had a lot more development ahead.

Taking a more metaphorical approach after deeper investigation has really benefited the idea of this dream and I feel as though it produces a clearer image of the dream. Again, the idea was to produce something sinister, but I wasn’t qute sure how creepy I was going to achieve it.

My initial challenge came from the fact I had the model’s makeup to do first, then I had to paint the hands of another model. This was a little time consuming be we got there in the end. We were then in probably the smallest possible studio with so much equipment, but the outcome works really effectively.

During the film, a nail falls off and I didn’t notice this until it had been fully edited, exported and uploaded. But hopefully this is not visible unless informed.

The photographer really understood my concept and how I wanted the images to look. We then arranged a long meet up where I carefully selected my favourite images and selected areas to crop to gain the best representation of the makeup and the detail put into it.

As a result of a very cooperative team, we created a really interesting outcome. What was also brilliant was that the girl who dreamt the dream messaged me asking if it was about hers. She absolutely loved it, which is extremely rewarding to hear.