Day: March 2, 2019

Influences

For my project, I pulled a lot of inspiration from The Edge of Seventeen (2016) and Eighth Grade (2018). I did a lot of research on these films, including a shot by shot analysis for The Edge of Seventeen and an analysis of the Eighth Grade title sequence, so it makes sense I would heavily rely on them as influences. I’m glad I did extensive research before filming because if I hadn’t I wouldn’t have known where to start. It helped me a lot when deciding what shots to use or what kind of mise-en-scene elements I wanted to include. I also learned a lot about the filmmaking process by using these influences. Most of the time, when people think of the word “copying” a negative connotation comes to mind. However, if you think about it, all movies within a genre contain a lot of the same. Filmmakers recycle a lot of techniques and are always learning from each other, which in turn makes the film community grow as a whole. I never thought about it this way until I began the production phase of this project.

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Here’s an example of how I was influenced. In my Storyboarding post, I included my plans for this shot. Here it is with my actress and the proper decor elements. It isn’t the exact same, but during pre production I thought about this specific composition and angle of this shot.

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Here’s a few more examples, except these ones are influences from The Edge of Seventeen.

Changes

I didn’t make too many changes during the filming process; the only think I did was cut out one of the shots I storyboarded. However, I think I am going to go back and film it. I cut it out because I didn’t think it was necessary but after editing my rough cut I think it definitely is needed. Other than that, I adjusted a few shot angles from my original plans.

Sources

• I used various IMDB links throughout this post. Their specific URLs can be found when clicking on them.
• Eighth Grade Title Sequence
• The Edge of Seventeen can be streamed from Netflix