For the next few blog posts, I’m going to break down my thought process when planning, shooting and editing this film.

In part 2 I will break down how I arranged and format my shoot, but for this blog I would like to explain my idea of the film and how I came to my final look.

To start us off, pre-production was probably the most annoying part for me because I’ve never really thought of myself to be a good writer and have always prefered to be behind the camera. The reason for this is because I don’t think that my ideas were good and often times I would be too ashamed to see the results of my own films. But for the purpose of this experiment, I decided to step out of my comfort zone and conquer my fears.

what I found challenging as a director is the idea I want my film to take on. My experimental idea was largely influenced by films such as “Memento” and “Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind”, therefore my story line were going to be based on that as well. Figuring out the appropriate type of cuts to bring my subject back in to the past was the key in to this whole experiment. I always found match cuts and transition through sound very interesting, but I also had to work with the limited gears I had. Since I didn’t have a proper audio recorder, I decided to go simple and just tell the story visually.

Besides telling the story, I also was trying to figure out the color tone of my film, how I wanted it to look and what would be the best way to show the character’s motive. So I looked to “Whiplash” as a source of inspiration for my color tone. I love the warm tones of the films and how it brought a very reflective contrast on the character. It not only feels intense, but a little bit uncomfortable to look at, which was the look I was going for.

This is a quick look of my inspiration for the films, more will be explained in Pt.2.