The idea is to create a false memory. Get a pretty model, blur the edges, overexpose the film. You can also create that overexposure effect digitally. Have her smiling, playing. Give her something that evokes childhood. Red balloon. No, we don't want to be cliche. Green balloon. And make sure there's an overriding color scheme. Green. We don't see a background - nothing but light on the horizon. This is memory, and memory is supposed to consist of overreliance on symbols, strong images, single focal points. That was the summer when...

We hire the model. She's angry and unhappy the moment she arrives at the shoot. We're not paying her enough, she says. She got payed $1000 for a thirty minute shoot last week. Sarah tells her that we cannot afford $1000, and that if she doesn't want $500 for thirty minutes of work, she can go home. She doesn't go home.

You, on the other hand, are neither angry nor unhappy. You begin to feel nostalgic, and you long for your childhood. Sitting in front of your computer, you begin to feel that you have lost something. It's bittersweet.

The model broke her heel on the first shoot, which is why her right leg is in the air, then she took the $500, and rode the subway home.