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RONAN WUN

RONAN WUN

I’ve been a massive fan of movies ever since I was a kid, and in the past few years, I’ve noticed that I love really stylized movies like TheLighthouse,GreenKnight,MissionImpossible:Fallout, and HarryPotter . I think that if you can guess the movie’s genre from just one frame, you know that it has a good style. So I decided to see if I could make a series of a few photos that evoke a genre just from one frame.

I endeavored to look at the most expressive movies I could find, and after finding some that I really liked, I thought about ways I could take photos that evoke the genre I wanted. I gathered readily-available props to use and planned my shots. Then I collaborated with my friends and took pictures of them in the scenes, as if I were shooting a movie. I originally had started on an entirely different thesis project, so my timeline for this has been a little bit condensed, but throughout a few weeks, I had worked hard on getting these pictures done. I want to convey my love of movies with this project, and help develop my own sense of style in photography and eventually, filmmaking.

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While creating this piece, I reflected a lot about who I am today and where I’m going with my life. In extension, I’ve been able to reflect on my relationships and appreciate the people who have been there for me in my life. There’s a lot going on in my project, but most importantly I want people to realize that the “grand scheme of things” that everyone goes on about is nonsense. I’m not referring to religion or outlook on life or anything, I mean the universe. There is no innate significance ascribed to anything that exists. It just is. It’s a big cosmic machine way bigger and crazier than anyone can ever understand. Go and spite everything in existence by finding significance in what you do, and the experiences you have. Any significance you find in what you do is by definition infinitely more significant than the universe itself, and I think that’s pretty cool.

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