Creating this film was originally my favourite part of E1. However, for E2, I came across multiple hills that I had to cross. The idea for this film originally came from the news of The Smiths reunion never happening due to the band members distaste for each other. This bothers me as I know I will never see them live, so the best idea is to show what would happen if Rachael and I became The Smiths.

Throughout the film, Rachael and I are seen trying to exaggerate our body language a lot to fit into the characters of Morrissey and Johnny Marr. Myself with the flowers and Rachael with her denim jacket, I feel like we did a good job at acting like them and copying their fashion. We tried to use a lot of different angles and originally, the goal was to find a camera tripod but to no avail. However, we decided to embrace holding the camera shaky as we found it more realistic. Plus, I felt like it fit with the narrative of ‘two friends who all of a sudden are famous musicians from the 80’s.’ Lastly, I wanted the lighting to be very warm as in the first shot with The Smiths vinyl playing, that vinyl is from their compilation album, ‘Louder than bombs.’ The vinyl cover is orange and so, I wanted to do a small tribute for it.

The audio quality in the film is not amazing. That is because I filmed with a NikonD7200. Unfortunately, this camera is more for photos rather than videos. If there is a next time, I’d like to give a try with borrowing one of the cameras from university.