Heyyyyy!
So there are two other movies that my movie will be drawing inspiration from, these two movies (both of which are, I think, incredible movies and serve as great examples of ways to make your movie revolutionary and different) are Taxi Driver and Clerks.
I'll start with Taxi Driver, this movie worries me a bit because it is a psychological thriller with a relatively similar concept and themes as my movie. Taxi Driver is about a man who works a very menial job as - you guessed it - a taxi driver and his life begins to spin out of control as he struggles to find love or any escape from his cyclical lifestyle. I think it's important to point out the differences in our movies because I do not want my movie to be too similar. One important difference is that in taxi driver the film is very grounded in reality and instead uses Robert De Niro's incredible performance to sell the characters spiraling mental health, I will instead use this supernatural element to make a more formalist film. But the main thing I hope to somehow incorporate is its EXCELLENT use of music. It has its iconic theme that is played over and over again and is used in its intro. It's brilliant and really does sell that melancholy feeling the movie is going for. The difference will of course be the era my movie takes place in, I want it to be set in the present and so my music will need to be more fitting. I want it to be the same music my character listens to (but I haven't decided yet) perhaps later this week I will look more into the music.
The other movie I had in mind when thinking about films on that I would base my films techniques is Clerks. A low-budget movie about two Clerks working at their corresponding stores while a compilation of seemly unrelated funny moments occur. I love the movie but the main thing I will be taking from the movie is the very simple and down-to-earth camera techniques, the camera is very stable and just cuts in and out of scenes in order to thread them together. The important factor is placing the camera in the perfect spots to ensure characters can move in and out of the shots while the camera does not move and is uninterrupted. I feel that these still shots are perfect for the tone of repetition that I am going for.
I'm likely going to have more cuts in between each shot but I intend to use the lack of movement in my movie the same way it is used here (minus the zoom-out).
Signing off,
Nico, Tuesday 2/21/2023
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