This is my symbolic camera, which is an exercise we had to do to help find our motivations and reflexivity within our film making journey. For my symbolic camera, I used decided to put on each side parts of me that i connect to creatively. For example, you can see on one side there is some old film, taken from my studies of film photography at A level, and a part of an old painting that I did- just a small section that I cut out. On the back, there is a mirror that shows your reflection. In this way, I wanted to convey the idea of your camera being an extension of yourself, and the images/ footage you decide to take are an extension of yourself and your own thoughts, desires and motivations. This I feel largely helped with the style of my film, which ended up being very hand held and simplistic in its methodology. This made me realize that all I really had to do was follow my motivations and the journey I decided to make and allow this to lead me. This as well meant that in the end product of my film, I as the one behind the camera was very present both in a physical and metaphorical sense- just as my symbolic camera shows on the sides and the reflection on the back.