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The sound of my tears

            My model, Kelly, wanted to do something different so we decided to do a series of cinematic shots covering the story of a mental / emotional breakdown. We shot on the fly but what more poetic way than to start the story with a shot of her in my car, when the rain had literally just stopped and my windscreen was still wet? The story is she had just pulled into the hard shoulder really feeling overwhemed (but obviously we shot on a much quieter city street!)

There's numerous metaphors about driving / travel at night to tap into. Poets have also long equated the rain with tears.

There wasn't a lot of tweaking to colour but I processed this with the tones of yellow and green to provoke an emotional response of sickness / unease in the viewer while also getting it to look cinematic.

I also chose to leave the small chip in my windscreen in... another metaphor tapping into the emotions. That chip is gonna crack one day.

"There's a band playing on the radio
And it's drowning the sound of my tears.." (Bryan Ferry, Oh Yeah)

Taken in: UK / England / Bristol (show map)

Taken on: February 19, 2016

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