During week 8, we individually presented the ideas that we had for our final project film assignment. It was refreshing to see a change after tirelessly working for the group’s film project, Missed Moments.
In comparison to that previous film I worked on, I decided to take things to a darker turn narrative-wise and go for a more serious route. Inspired by Christopher Nolan and his style of storytelling and directing, I wanted to be able to pursue a genre relating to action and a slice of life with familial themes.
The film inspirations behind my idea were Nolan films such as The Dark Knight and Inception;
I have this weird obsession with slow-motion scenes and something as epic as the opening of Inception is a vision that I hope to achieve. Maybe not production-wise but in terms of the narrative and the cinematography. That is something I hope to achieve. The level of production that I can make is potentially within the lighting and that is being able to replicate the cinematic techniques. The scene from above show a high-energy and an immensely intense scene, but for my production, it won’t be as loud and as stressful. Rather, I plan for my final film to be silent and communicate the mood through the cinematography.
James suggested that focusing on two aspects (narrative and cinematography) is a lot of workload to carry so rather than having my own independent film, I plan to help other projects for Screen and Sensation and hopefully, be able to use my own style of cinematography through various bodies of work. At the moment, I have offered to help out for two other projects and I am excited to collaborate with Pavina and Ben!