BLoody Mary TReatMEnt

Mary is a young woman living in North Texas. he's tired of being cheated on by her boyfriend. She wants to teach him a lesson. She thinks she's gong to murder him.  Her boyfriend has other plans.

Pegasus Film Festival Role

For the Pegasus Film Festival. I'm serving as a fundraiser coordinator and member contributor under the budget department. I also serve in the PR department and promotion/advertisement through social media.

FILM LOG LINE ayyy

Mary, a homicidal woman cheated on by her boyfriend hunts down her garbage boyfriend and decides she wants to murder him. She discovers that maybe a different plan would work out better.

Dance Documentary

Logline: To capture the dance cluster at Booker T in their creative zone and teach the audience how to get into the cluster and what it's about.

I want the dancing to tell the story. I want it to open up to low lighting, and dancers dancing fearlessly and have them focused in their work. Then I want Ms. Walker to start talking about what the cluster is about while showing clips of the things done in class and the interactions the dancers have with each other. I'll get an interview from a dancer, Margaret Canady (probably) and not directly show her face but instead have clips of her dancing while she speaks about her experience. It should end with the dancers not dancing at all. Maybe just they're interactions and how close they are. The final scene should be the end of a dance number when they clap once the class ends and they have their own signature "applause" which is them beating on the marley dance floor.

Amy documentary directed by Asif Kapadia

Amy is a documentary that documents Amy Winehouse's early lie up until her death. It tells of all her success and the struggles she had with her family, relationships and her consistent substance abuse. It was directed by the British director Asif Kapadia who also directed the documentary Senna that also received a lot of praise. Amy recently won a grammy for best music film. What was very interesting about the style of Asif's documentaries is that he uses archived footage recorded and lets that tell the story. There was nothing that Asif recorded himself except for the audio of some friends and family whose faces are never shown unless they're with Amy. Amy Winehouse really is the center of it all, it almost feels as if Amy's telling her story with her own words and her music. The music is very essential in the film because each song she's written describes an event in her life. Amy says in the film that she'd never write a song with an experience she hasn't been through because she wouldn't know how to tell the story right. It's very evident in the film because the lyrics are shown during the times of trouble. Asif also collects various images of where she wrote her music. It's almost full of a collection of amateur videos recorded by Amy and her friends. This made it much more personal. I'd love to incorporate similar styles in the dance documentary in which the dancers tell their own story, there won't be a video of anyone just talking, I'd do an over voice of them talking about dance. Their movement should tell the story about the dance cluster at Booker T. 

French New Wave

French new wave has a few characteristics. Such as long shots, jump cuts, and anti authoritarian protagonists. In my film I decided to have french dialogue. Although natural sound is a characteristic of French new wave, I decided not to add that in my film. I do however, have natural location. All french new wave is in black and white so that's something that I decided to add. My film is a romantic drama. It's a love story about a girl who's been cheated on but finds someone better for herself. Women in French new wave aren't your typical girls: happy, vulnerable. Although my protagonists seems vulnerable, the message behind my film is that she's moved past that. She's in face not vulnerable. She won't cry anymore.

Inspiration.

     I've always loved movies. I always wanted to be in them. It was like watching other people's stories I wanted to be in. I didn't have many things to look forward to during my childhood. I was living in Georgia and lived in the same neighborhood until I was 13. So it seemed to me like a small world. Most of what I would watch were horror movies. To this day Wes Craven is a genius to me. My favorite horror franchise is The Nightmare on Elm Street movies. Honestly, it was a really long time that I just stopped watching movies altogether. Today's movies didn't appeal to me. They're all remakes and bland. All based around the same thing. They would just bore me. I started watching a lot of TV Shows instead. I noticed how complex their plots started being and it was nice that I could follow these characters and build emotional feelings for them. I was basically a part of their world. What really brought me back to movies was a film called Antichrist that my friend made me watch. It was directed by Lars Von Trier. It was a very strange movie. It was nothing I've ever seen. And then I found out that it was part of a trilogy and I was really interested afterwards. His style of filmmaking is very, very beautiful. I haven't seen much of his work past his "Depression Trilogy." And then I watched the movie called The Perks of Being a Wallflower which is now my favorite movie, which was adapted from one of my favorite books. Although the way it's filmed and edited isn't as beautiful as Von Trier's films, the writing and characters were beautiful. It's plot is wonderful and I became so interested in the coming-of-age genre of movies. It's not the movies I'd like to make but it is something wonderful that I very much enjoy watching.