lists

Films/styles/genres/content I hate

1. stereotypical “sexy/dumb” female characters

2. any movie depicting college party life

3. Harold and kumar

4. tomb raider or any movie with Angelina Jolie, really. 

5. movies that try to have a “tough” female lead character but only make her tough because tough means sexy tight costuming

6. films that try really hard to be cute- i.e. most “indie” movies

7. almost all “chick flicks”

8. movies void of any attempt at a color sceme

9. poor set design

10. product placement

11. nudity for the sake of a selling point.

12. poorly considered shots

13. cheesy lighting-this usually happens in “epic” movies with overuse of backlighting and no contrast on the faces of the actors.

14. I really hate most “epic fantasy” films

15. movies with too much CGI

16. actually movies with CGI in general kind of bore me

17. movies with too many explosions

18. all sports movies

19. movies with a shaky camera the entire time. i.e. cloverfield

20. remakes and sequels

21. most new Disney movies

22. modern American horror films

23. Elizabethan keira knightly period dumb romance pieces 

I like

1. gritty lighting, usually dark lighting

2. film noir (color or black and white)

3. obviously color schemed movies

4. pixar

5. Strozek

6. very awkward almost true to life’s awkwardness movies-i.e. happiness

7. films that disrupt linearity

8. high contrast black and white films

9. Band of Outsiders

10. Fellini's 8 1/2 

11. complex, confusing plots

12. movies with well thought out soundtracks

13. movies with actors nobody knows

14. films that incorporate other mediums into the fim-i.e. drawings, photographs

15. very strange costuming

 

Style and techniques used in the content of my past work-

1.high contrast lighting

2. people as subjects

3. color schemed

4. experimentation in linearity of storytelling, aesthetic through various mediums

 

Make a list describing how you want your work to grow/change/transform

1. Experiment with breaking Hollywood gender stereotypes

2. work in a more abstract and less narrative form

3. flesh out characters to be more believable/genuine

4. become a better storyteller. Really I think this is the most important one.

5. try costuming and set creation

6. telling stories without dialogue

7. getting better at writing dialogue

8. incorporating more mediums into the films. i.e. drawings, photographs, paintings, elaborate costumes, etc.

9.become more grounded in history/current events. Relevance

to the time we are living in.

How I want my work to function

1. to provoke dialogue/debates/questions

2. to cause the viewer to become more observant of simple, overlooked events.

My role as a filmmaker is to provoke dialogue, debates and questions through the medium of film.