This chapter explores the strategies developed through the research for inviting recent school leavers and school students to creatively explore and represent diffuse and amorphous thoughts and feelings about gendered experiences in secondary schools. In developing arts- based methods and processes, we question the limits of discourse and the generative force that constraints including time, space, technologies, resources, and skills brought into play for our participants and the researchers. We map our three methodological movements through open-ended in-person workshops where recent school leavers took up opportunities to respond to data excerpts in a form of their choosing (animation, poetry, film, podcast), and tightly constrained virtual environments dictated by pandemic conditions, to the final iteration with students in ACT senior secondary colleges entailing open-ended invitations and extended processes of affective filmmaking. Throughout this chapter, we use screenshots and links to videos of student artefacts to interrogate the limits of language and the potential of other modalities to open new ways of thinking-feeling-encountering gender.