What I did this summer (2013)

1) 2 weeks 2 make it music video competition:

https://vimeo.com/71937617

My role:
- Casting, Directing, Writing, Editor

I found this to be an exciting project, but there were a few issues with the band members and I thought it could have been done better. The narrative was warped because one of the band members decided he didn't want to act last minute. I wanted to do it in the style of 'Stay' where I would use projectors/ displaying various photography of nature, art, and etc. But this is what we ended up with, it'll be better next year.

We shot with my canon xf100, along with my rode sound equipment I bought with my scholarship money a month ago in London.













2) Word in Short, Directed by Fionn Watts


 I helped out as an Art Director for a production company called Far North Films, worked 10 hours (9:30- 6pm), it was Fionn Watt's 60 second pilot called 'Word in Short'. It was an educational experience about professional film sets, crew and their roles.

3) Twistered, Directed by Thomas Pickering

I worked as an actress for a production company called 'bigpiktures', it was a 10 second short called 'Twistered', it will be shown at Celluloid Screams in October 2013. The team bought a prosthetic arm and talented make-up artists transformed it into a zombie arm.

Filmmaker Insults

I found these entertaining because of its rawness, intense feelings and some of them are true:

Ingmar Bergman on Jean-Luc Godard:
“I’ve never gotten anything out of his movies. They have felt constructed, faux intellectual, and completely dead. Cinematographically uninteresting and infinitely boring. Godard is a fucking bore. He’s made his films for the critics. One of the movies, Masculin, Féminin, was shot here in Sweden. It was mind-numbingly boring.”

Jean-Luc Godard on Quentin Tarantino:
“Tarantino named his production company after one of my films. He’d have done better to give me some money.”

Nick Broomfield on Quentin Tarantino:
“It’s like watching a schoolboy’s fantasy of violence and sex, which normally Quentin Tarantino would be wanking alone to in his bedroom while this mother is making his baked beans downstairs. Only this time he’s got Harvey Weinstein behind him and it’s on at a million screens.”

Jacques Rivette on Stanley Kubrick:
“Kubrick is a machine, a mutant, a Martian. He has no human feeling whatsoever. But it’s great when the machine films other machines, as in 2001.”

Jean-Luc Godard on Steven Spielberg:
“I don’t know him personally. I don’t think his films are very good.”

Tim Burton on Kevin Smith (after Smith jokingly accused Burton of stealing the ending of Planet of the Apes from a Smith comic book):
“Anyone who knows me knows I would never read a comic book. And I would especially never read anything created by Kevin Smith.”

Kevin Smith on Tim Burton (in response to “I would never read a comic book”):
“Which, to me, explains fucking Batman.”

David Gordon Green on Kevin Smith:
“He kind of created a Special Olympics for film. They just kind of lowered the standard. I’m sure their parents are proud; it’s just nothing I care to buy a ticket for.”

Vincent Gallo on Sofia (and Francis Ford) Coppola:
“Sofia Coppola likes any guy who has what she wants. If she wants to be a photographer she’ll fuck a photographer. If she wants to be a filmmaker, she’ll fuck a filmmaker. She’s a parasite just like her fat, pig father was.”

Vincent Gallo on Abel Ferrara:
“Abel Ferrara was on so much crack when I did The Funeral, he was never on set. He was in my room trying to pick-pocket me.”

Uwe Boll on Michael Bay:
“I’m not a fucking retard like Michael Bay.”

Source:
http://flavorwire.com/200745/the-30-harshest-filmmaker-on-filmmaker-insults-in-history/