This past weekend I went out on my own and into the beautiful world of the B-roll shoot! I tend to think of myself as a pretty creative person, and I am most excited about B-roll to be able to try and evoke human feelings and emotions through using visual scenery. I headed out to the Delaware Tow Path and tried to put myself in the shoes of someone who was an opioid addict. Feelings of desolation, loneliness, and numbness circled around me, and so I looked to try to capture those images. The weather was perfect–it was brisk, windy, and leaves were slowly floating off branches. I decided to go under the big metal bridge, to get into the mindset of feeling “trapped”. I really focused on the framing of my shots; making sure that the frame felt crammed and closed-in on. I decided to just drive around the streets, following an ambulance that was going off. I felt a bit creepy (and I’m not sure if this is legal?!?) but I videotaped the ambulance unloading into the hospital, and left the camera filming the empty and abandoned ambulance in the drop-off spot. I feel like by using empathetic measures and putting myself into the shoes of the subject of the film, I was able to look at the world with different eyes and create a “documentary-specific” lens for filming.
