Self Portrait.
Channel: Joykael
Date: 2020-10-26

Instagram: @joykael
Audio: Deep in Data by Omercho, Experimental genre
I used footage from Andrew Solomon, Depression, the secret we share Ted talk and Anime clips from Orange, Koe no Katachi and NHK.

Assignment: To create a self-portrait (video montage)

I spent days and weeks confused about how I should portray myself through a video. I’ve not always been a very honest person to myself. I’m bad with words and describing myself to people so I decided to not go with a voice over but instead rely heavily on visuals and audio to tell my story. This definitely comes with difficulty because I had no ‘voiceover’ to guide my editing and artistic ‘narration’. However, I think I managed it.

I am a person who likes to have control over what I have over. What I don’t and never will have control over is time. Time moves very fast for me, and  I want it to stop. Snippets of my life will be shown throughout this short video, from what I do outside of school and to the dark thoughts on my mind. Eventually, along the lines, life seemed to go out of hand and I fell into a deep depression (diagnosed clinically). I could not control all the downs in my life.