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CApture Film Festival 2025 – Student interview – 03. Peripheral

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RYVER: The whole premise of the film, in general, I think, was more about letting other people interpret it. So I made sure that all of my dialogue was very lyrical in the text. It's just stuff that I've written down for my journal and taken from that. So yeah, but I've had lots of people come up to me since showing the film off to people. And every single person's come back to me with, was the film about XYZ?

And it's always something different. And I've said yes to every single one. Because the whole idea of the film is just stepping out from your own world and just notice and analysing.

I had one day of shooting for this film, and I literally dragged my 2 best friends out with me. And we had three locations planned. We made it to none of them, because all of our transport skills are awful. So I ended up at the Sydney Opera House.

And I was like, you know what? Sit on the stairs, and I'll just shoot. And so I just-- it's almost made up entirely of B-roll from that day. So it's not anything I planned.

DAVID TODD: So sometimes that works better, just being in the moment?

RYVER: I think that closing scene, it was the scene that started the whole thing. My vision was a weird shot like that. And it just-- I know I wanted the sticky note drop at the end. I just didn't know what I wanted to say. So then I worked out what I wanted to say and worked backwards from there.

And it was all just kind of, what can I pick up in the world that people haven't normally-- like, you wouldn't normally see a shot of? I mean, this is the first short film I've ever made. I've had the passion for years and years. And I've just never done anything about it. So I think my best piece of advice is just make that bad film, because, I mean, look where it ends up. You know? Yeah.

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