Hi, thanks for your interest in the film and your thoughtful and positive responses, I'll try and reply briefly... The borrowed camera is significant because it limited the time available for shooting, also its simply the kind of detail worth mentioning to catch someone's interest. Sorry about the incomplete link, just incompetence on my part! The three of us making the film are all based in Glasgow, making Aberdeen the furthest and least familiar city for inclusion in the film (not counting Inverness). Although we originally intended to research and shoot in the city time and financial constraints made it impossible. I believe John Cromar at least of the interviewees is from Aberdeen and others come from across Scotland and further afield. I'm not sure if its possible to make a film about this kind of music without being at least a little bit pretentious! The original theory behind send/receive was simply to film a lot of people responding to the same set of questions, cut out the least interesting parts and hopefully whatever was left would be good! As such it was always intended to be a partial, impressionistic snapshot of the activities in Scotland, but the logistics of making the film forced our hand even more. With limited filming opportunities lots of people we would have liked to include didn't respond, couldn't make it or plain failed to show up, some interviews just didn't work out well on film despite great responses from the interviewees or couldn't be used for technical reasons. Trying to create a 'history' or 'accurate representation' would be impossible with the resources and footage we had as well as possibly contentious for those involved depending on how they were represented. I also wouldn't want to be responsible for claiming an authoritative knowledge of the history of this kind of music in Scotland or how the 'scene' works. In fact I think the final result is a better representation of the nebulous and random nature of this kind of activity than any attempt to be definitive could hope to be. There is a thread in that the interviewees tend to be discussing similar things at the same time, even if they totally contradict each other, and the viewer is required to make their own links between statements rather than be spoonfed a narrative. This music tends to be about dislocation and individualism and the need to make your own choices and I think the film reflects that. To make a traditionally structured film about such an experimental subject would be a contradiction. I had personally hoped for the film to be even more disorientating and challenging to watch with a big psychedelic noise 2001 Space Odyssey type ending! Thankfully Ben the editor kept things a bit more lucid than that, but maybe next time... Of course we had other ideas- to film an event of some kind and lots of additional footage but in the end the main deciding factor in the development of this movie was practicality.With a limited budget and work, family and other commitments we had to shoot and gather what footage we could and then make that into the best film possible with the time and resources available. I'm very proud of what we've achieved. Its possible that there are many ways in which it could be improved but the simple truth is that this film had to be either this film or no film.
