Portfolio for Film & Video
M U S I C
Film, music, acting and art have always played a large role in my life. From a young age, I've played a variety of instruments, violin, piano, guitar and bass. Currently, I'm in a female fronted rock band called Booshka. I write the music for our sets, along with my other band mates, including the song I intend to use for my music video, Pyro. For many of our songs, I am inspired by the world around me, much like I am for my work in film. In particular nature plays a large role in much of the inspiration for our originals. Some of our originals include Moth Girl, Spam for Dinner, Black and Blue, Red, Mudstuck and Sleep Powder. We have a live recording of our set from a festival called Party in The Town on YouTube. We are also recording an EP of four original songs, we raised the money for this through a fundraiser in November. I'm very passionate about music, and love to merge my love for cinematography and music together.
My music taste ranges from any grunge to come out of the 90's such as Pearl Jam, Chris Cornell and Kurt Cobain, to 70's synthesised cheesy tunes, Prince, Bee Gee's, Fleetwood and Springsteen. Our music is inspired by the Riot Grrl movement in punk, with artists such as Courtney Love in Hole, The Runaways, L7 and The Donna's. For modern music, I like Portishead, Royal Blood, Cigarettes After Sex and The 1975. My music taste influences my work and I'm looking forward to be using my own original in my music video.
In the future, I would like to become a writer of Film scores, combining my love for film and music together.
F I L M
Film wise, I've always been a big lover of psychological thrillers, horror, mystery and action. My love for reading also mirrored my love for film. I'm a big fan of Stephen King, so Stanley Kubrick's adaptation of The Shining became an all time favourite of mine. Moreover, I am also a fan of The Coen Brothers' work, in particular No Country For Old Men. It's violently poetic, gripping and littered with black humour. The complex character of Anton is used to convey the philosophical debate of good vs. evil. He sticks by a incomprehensible code throughout the film that the other characters cannot unpick. This film contains one of the most intense scenes, where Llewelyn Moss finds the tracker inside the money, and manages to narrowly escape Anton by jumping from his hotel window and surviving the shootout. Moreover, another director whose work inspires me is Martin Scorsese. He is an incredible director, with dramatic style and an amazing portfolio of successful films, including Taxi Driver, Wolf of Wall Street and my personal favourite Shutter Island. His use of subtle nuances and intuitive shots make his films intriguing. Christopher Nolan's work has inspired me in more ways than one. He is extremely talented, having directed, in my opinion, some of the best cinematography our generation has seen, including Memento, Interstellar and Inception. Interstella's cinematography is beautiful, and the narrative doesn't disappoint, as Nolan is known for his complex scripts and timelines. The visuals make it my favourite Sci-Film.
A R T
From studying Art at GCSE, over the two years I began to find my preference in regard to the different movements that have grown out of events over the course of our history, for example, surrealism, cubism, impressionism etc. One of my favourite artists is Gustav Klimt, who is an Austrian symbolism painter. His work is influenced by many Greek myths and legends, which I would like to include in my music video, one of which being the "Three Sisters of Fate", which entails three witch like figures who control human life. One who weaves the string of morality, one which measures it, and one that cuts it. His most famous piece, "The Kiss" is prominent in modern film culture, in the film Shutter Island. I'd like to take inspiration from his paintings for my music video and other work in film and video, as the colour palettes and interesting compositions he uses are very inspiring to me.
I've always been interested in the work of Salvador Dali, one of the artists from the surrealist movement. The surrealism movement not only influenced art, but also cinematography. Salvador Dalí designed a dream sequence for Alfred Hitchcock's film Spellbound (1945). It was one of the first American films to use psychoanalysis as a major element of the story. Hitchcock wanted to capture the vividness of dreams as never before and felt that Dalí was the person to help him do so.
