HEY, it's Trev. Will you consider helping my thesis film come to life? Your contribution will assist with production & post-production costs (gear, props/production design, insurance, catering/craft services, picture mastering, sound mixing, festival submission fees, etc). My crew and I will love you forever.

 

Genre -- Drama/Psych Thriller

Logline -- An accomplished landscape photographer faces a life-defining test when a mysterious woman lures him into participating in a portrait photo contest.

Production Dates -- December 10-13

 

Sources of Directorial Inspiration

Personal struggles with perfectionism -- a focus on outcome over process.

+ Family circumstance, relationship experience, artistic hobbies.

 

Wesleyan University Film Education: visual storytelling, style as an extension and/or subversion of narrative, film as the “art of omission,” dialogue as subtext, editing as rhythm/music, the expressive organization and presentation of space, part-to-whole & tension-and-release narrative relationships, cinematic tools for encouraging audience participation and emotional engagement, suspense through character subjectivity.

 

Movies Exploring Obsession: rhythmic pacing in Whiplash (2014), dramatic character-driven tension in Phantom Thread (2017), editing as means of intensifying character psychology in Taxi Driver (1976), subjective visual storytelling as a means of active audience participation in Strangers On a Train (1951) and Black Swan (2010), thrill through dynamic action in Nightcrawler (2014), horror through physical character movement and the withholding of information in Eyes Without a Face (1960).

 

 

 

 

Starring

Quinn Devita

Finley Jacobsen

with Vince DeLisi

and Deborah Dalton

 

Writer, Director, Editor

Trevor Dalton

 

Producer

Allegra Dominguez

 

Director of Photography

Corey Silverman-Lloyd

 

Assistant Camera

Harry Yu

 

Assistant Director

Joel Rader

 

Script Supervisor

Abby Glassman

 

Production Designer

Alek Yoder

 

Art Directors

Umi Ito

Maseo Refuerzo

 

Gaffer & Photo Artist

Harrison Haft

 

Key Grip

Noah Frato-Sweeney

 

Costume Designers

Emma Kendall

Abby Meyers

 

Sound Recordist

Tuong Nguyen

 

Boom Operator

Teddy Lowen

 

Sound Assistant

Milly Berman

 

Composer

Martin Samoska

 

Hair & Makeup Artist

Jezebel Turner

 

Production Assistant

Graciana Childs