9. Influence/Inspiration
MartinScorsese
⢠Martin Scorsese who is well known from his cult classics
such as taxi driver, the wolf of WallStreet, shutter island,
Goodfellas and raging bull. He has been making movies since
1963 and is a long-time writer and director. He has branched
out into multiple different styles of movies such as dark
comedy, dramas, crime fiction, thrillers, psychological, horror
and mystery. He is also known to use freeze framing and
slow-motion in a lot of his movies as it allows him to focus
on facial expressions and body language in a much rawer
and more emotional way.
⢠He was also raised in little Italy which gave him lots of ideas
and helped him write some of his movies, he earned a B.S.
degree in film communications in 1964, followed by an M.A.
in the same field in 1966 at New York University's School of
Film. During this time, he made numerous prize-winning
short films including The Big Shave (1967), and directed his
first feature film, Who's That Knocking At My Door (1967).
⢠I feel like the slow motion and freeze framing is an effective
way to really convey raw emotion and has helped give me
ideas to try and fit it within my film in part which require
specific emotions or scenes that donât carry any specific
emotion but still make the viewer feel something.
10. Influence/inspiration
MaryHarron
⢠Mary Harron is the least known on this list as a director but
has had one of the most influential movies of current times
being "American psycho" which she is mostly known for
along with "I shot Andy Warhol" she co-wrote American
psycho and The Notorious Bettie Page with Guinevere
Turner which she denies this title though. She tends to
focus on drama, horror, thriller titles.
⢠From her I'm mostly going to be focusing on her work on
American psycho and the more mysterious aspects of that
film with Patrick Bateman not knowing if h really murdered
all those people along with the audience or if he really did
and everyone in the company is covering for him, so they
donât get a bad rep. So, the mystery behind if it's really him
committing the murders or not is what I intend on focusing
on due to those aspects of keeping the audience guessing
and how you can make a character convincing to the
audience
13. StrengthsandLimitations
⢠Strengths
⢠Very strong and solid ideas for what I want to create from genre, style, how its shot,
people I want in it, locations, wardrobe etc.
⢠I have lots of experience in acting as I did drama as a kid along with my friend who will
also be acting in it with me
⢠Have lots of experience filming along with the person who will be filming, making it look
good and know what looks good is a benefit we both have making filming smoother and
easier to carry out.
⢠My locations I have in mind aren't far from each other making it easy for everyone to
travel and get there.
⢠I've studied and watched analysis videos on the movies I've used as inspiration, so I have
a good idea of what I want It to look like, what message I want to show and how to make
the audience feel.
⢠Limitations
⢠It'll be my first time making a short film or anything with actual story including writing
a script.
⢠Might have t buy my own equipment to get the quality I want specifically mics as
I donât want a whole movie to be ruined by that as have strong beliefs that itll be good to
watch but I am sceptical about the audio front of things.
15. Bibliography
⢠David Fincher â Wikipedia David Fincher, Wikipedia
⢠Fight Club - Rotten Tomatoes Fight Club. (1999). [Film]. los Angeles: Fox.
⢠https://filmlifestyle.com/martin-scorsese-style-of-
filmmaking/#:~:text=Scorsese's%20use%20of%20slow%20motion,at%20play%20in%20th
e%20scene Martin Scorsese, filmlifestyle.com
⢠https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000217/ Martin Scorsese, IMDB
⢠Reception Theory (communicationtheory.org) Fight Club. (1999). [Film]. los Angeles:
Fox.
⢠Richard Kelly (filmmaker) â Wikipedia Richard Kelly, Wikipedia
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Make it detailed. Become an expert on the people you look at.
Include images to illustrate the topic.
Collect their work, beliefs, approaches to work.
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Make it detailed. Become an expert on the people you look at.
Include images to illustrate the topic.
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