Creative cinematography can help build your story and characters.
This post was written by Remoy Philip.
I grew up on VHS tapes like a typical 90s latchkey kid. But atypical, because I grew up in an immigrant family—a South Asian single-parent suburban home. My mom worked a lot. So, by myself, I’d often slip a tape into the VCR and be transported.
But the VHS tapes we had, there weren’t many immigrant stories. I’d watch The Sandlot, or Back to the Future on the reg. Those brought a lot of fun energy to what I was feeling as a teenager—full of hormones, nostalgia, and excitement about the future. But nothing that really showed what that felt like filtered through my shade of melanin.
That’s something I wanted to really show with my next short. How the immigrant experience can feel through a camera lens. I wanted the audience to feel it in their body as much as they were seeing it on screen.
Author: Guest Author
This article comes from No Film School and can be read on the original site.
