Fiction Adaptation Unit- Investigating Inspirational Directors

For my Fiction Adaptation Film and my adaptation of "Anthem for a Doomed Youth", I have decided to investigate the works of Stanley Kubrick, a director who I admire greatly because of his unique and interesting approach to movie-making.

Director, Stanley Kubrick

Some classic Kubrick movies I have enjoyed thoroughly are "The Shining" (an adaptation of Stephen Kings classic novel which I am coincidentally studying for the theory side of this unit) "Full Metal Jacket" and "2001, a Space Oddessey." All of these films feature a sense of surrealism in some aspects, and have extremely interesting landscape shots and strange plot-points that have often left people scratching their heads.
An interview I found on Youtube has Kubrick explain his childhood and how he entered the world of film through his interest in Photography:



I found this interview to be very informative. It's worth noticing that this interview was created before any of the films I mentioned were even in Kubrick's mind, and I found it interesting to hear from the man prior to him creating arguably some of the greatest films of all time.

Something I wish to emulate from Kubrick in my film is his creative use of longshots. In particular for one shot I have an idea to create where the camera pans from a landscape shot of a character walking up a hill upwards to reveal a destroyed city-scape.

My shot idea to appear at one point in my film. The camera pans from frame 1 to Frame 2 revealing the destroyed city.

This kind of interesting long-shot is used in a lot of Kubrick's films, most notably A Space Odyssey and The Shining. Although I do not have the Hollywood Budget that Kubrick had, the style of film I wish to create (a sound piece using photos) will allow me to create the destroyed city-scape using photoshop.

The interview with Kubrick taught me how difficult it sounds to get into the film industry, and how difficult it can be to get recognition for our films, but with his successes in directing it all seems worth it.