My Inspirations

 My Inspirations 

I have decided to organize my passions & interests from genre of film, to the directors i admire, favorite forms of videography & photography (e.g. lens, lighting set-ups and technicalities etc.) my favorite aspects of pop culture and the movies that influence me in my own media creating. 

My favorite genre of film as a whole is very difficult to choose for me as i do like to diversify myself when it comes to genre preferences. My choice of film varies from time & occasion, and depending on what kind of mood and atmosphere I'm in.  I like all films genres and i think they all have a purpose, a role, a part to play within the never-endingly, gigantic umbrella known as the media industry. There are a-lot of awesome choices to pick from, but if I was going to pick my top favorites it would be...

HORROR

To me it just inculpates the essence, the existence, and the soul of not just cinema but the history of video/filmmaking as a whole. The first ever quote on quote 'movie' to be captured in terms of  videography history, was a reenactment of the decapitation of "The Mary Queen Of Scots" in 1890! It was the most unusual yet such an interesting starting point of the phenomenon that is none as today as the cinema experience. A lot is taken for granted when it comes to films and video media as the general public don't really know or are aware of the fact of how cinema came to be It's really wild and surprising when you read up about it, anyways...

Things what influence, drive & inspire me

Zack Snyder

Full name being Zachary Edward Snyder is an American film director/cameraman, producer, screenwriter and cinematographer. Born on the 1st of march 1966 aged 55, living in Green Bay, Wisconsin (United States). Best known  for his intense action and obscure sci-fi films and use of less-popular and unorthodox filming making techniques and professional practices. Snyder is apart of a co-founded business called 'Cruel & Unusual Films' a production company that he established in 2004, with his debut first-time, big Hollywood breakthrough blockbuster 'Dawn Of The Dead' which was a remake of George .A. Romero's  1978 Dawn Of The Dead which was an old, be-loved zombie movie classic in the dark, Body Horror comedy subgenre of horror. Alongside with others he founded the company with where Deborah Snyder (His Wife), and longtime friend and producing partner Wesley Coller, who is also an American producer who helped work on most of Snyder's more DC related film adaptions. He co-produced Man Of Steel (2013), and served as the Executive Producer for Batman .vs. Superman: Dawn Of Justice (2016), Wonder Woman (2017), Justice League (2017), Wonder Woman (1984), and lastly Zack Snyder's Justice League (2021) currently available on HBO Max and DVD/Blu-Ray. 

generally consist of a wide variety of preferences and choices both of which drastically affect the way the media presents him as apart of Hollywood. 

• Very Dynamic and very visually stimulating opening scenes and title sequences which suck you in within just seconds of them being on screen.
• They usually have very little to no dialogue at times and emphasis visual emotion, visual drama and suspenseful imagery to convey the atmosphere and feel of the film. You know exactly what you are watching for the rest of the film and sets the bar for high expectations.
• His films very often tend to have Voice Narration from potential main characters or important figures within the film's world etc. Christopher Nolan loves to do this a lot in films to empower the audience and suck them in e.g. The Dark Knight Trilogy. 
• He is a massive fan of monochrome/black & white photography always, even at a young age, He states that a lot of old black & white forms of media inspire him when it comes to in-camera settings like white balance etc.
• He always uses a lot high-contrast and dark, de-saturated color grades in his films especially with the likes of 'The 300' (2006) etc. 
• Uses a big amount of wide shots to put emphasis on action sequences and depicting unique , cool and creative angled perspectives.
• Movies have very high body counts, sometimes accompanied with widespread metropolitan levels of destruction (Watchmen, Man of Steel). '300' alone has an estimated body count of 585.
• Often normally casts Carla Gugino, who is an American actress consisting with playing characters like Ingrid Cortez in The Spy Kids Trilogy.
• Loves to reference classic renaissance paintings/pictures and various forms of artwork.
• Loves, loves, loves Slow motion in his films this is incorporated into his action sequences a lot of the time mostly. And links into his form of 'Visual Storytelling' Having a good esthetic in film is critical to him personally and his style which collocates with the ideology of 'less is more' and can keep mean so much more.
• Recently in his latest Film Army Of The Dead (2021) Snyder has used the Canon 50mm f/0.95 rangefinder lenses that he had bought on E-Bay giving the film a dreamlike, smooth, creamy, out of focus look and feel.
• The company 'Red Digital Cinema' designed a custom made "Red Monstro" camera that could calibrate the use of the these particular rare 1960s lenses made in Japan.

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  James Cameron is a big fan of Snyder's work and has named him as one of his inspirations. Which is a highly Prestigious compliment to be given to you, especially by one of the greatest film directors of all time in cinema history.

• A handful of his personal quotes...

- "It's difficult to find a movie that feels true to itself. You feel the hand of Hollywood, the moviemaking by committee, on everything."

-  [on presenting his male protagonists with superhuman physiques] "I have always been influenced by the fantasy art of Frank Frazetta and obsessed with the potential of humanity's physicality". 

(side story fact): Frank Frazetta was an American fantasy and science fiction artist, noted for his comic book work, and paperback book covers, paintings, posters, LP record album covers and other media. He is often referred to as the 'Godfather' of fantasy art, and one of the most renowned illustrators of the 20th Century. 

- [on the Superman character] "All the movies I've made, I've made with a slight bit of irony. Not even a slight bit. A fair amount. But the ironic part of [ 'Man of Steel'] is that it's not ironic. You know what I mean? No tongue in cheek, no winking at the camera, no apologies. It's Superman. He deserves that. In my mind, we really had to act as if no films had been made. It's like we just found this comic book lying on the ground under a bed, and we were like, This would be a cool movie".