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What are visual frameworks? I’ve been trying to figure out how to plainly explain this, but I can’t muster up the right words to explain it plainly without details (LOTS of details).

For me the frameworks series was initially conceived from a place most creative ideas start from; boredom. Earlier this year I was at dinner with a few friends and like most social gatherings people talk; talk before, during, after and well after the meal (naturally).

While conversations go on around the table I'm just sitting there with my camera just observing everything. Naturally I start taking pictures of anything and everything. During this whole process this one guy was in a position, in this pose I thought looked so natural and well angled I took some photos of him. More time passed and he was still laser focused on the phone. It looked like he was in a trance almost and for some reason I just wanted to record it for as long as the moment lasted.

I kept the camera in the same position and I pressed that little small red button on the camera and for 30 seconds I recorded that little moment. So going back to the initial question of what are visual frameworks the answer would be a captured moment; a single captured moment (simple).

After the moment passes we slap some music add a little color grade & presto a visual framework.

Hope You Enjoy

-Andrew

Cinema 2012-2017

I love movies. Movies have had such an enormous influence on my life and a lot of times I draw on them constantly. In 2012 on a very cold night in December (much like now) , I was channel surfing looking for something to watch, but out of sheer chance I noticed the film, The Tree Of Life, was on tv. I only saw it once and I absolutely loved the film so I decided to watch the remainder of the film. Again I was captivated by the beautiful visuals and the poetic artistry of Terrence Malick’s film that for some reason it made me think.

That moment I started to think about all the movies I saw that year and I thought about how blown away I was with the different stories and visuals that truly struck a chord for me. I thought so hard on it that I got a pen and paper and started listing all the movies I saw for the first time (old or new) that year I considered great cinematic master pieces. Now fast forward to now, I realized that I've been making these lists for 5 years now; each year discovering a new film and being moved by the stories told from each one.

2012

  • Sylvia

  • The Guard

  •  007: Skyfall

  • The Tree of Life

  • The Avengers

  • Prometheus

  • The Dark Knight Rises

  • Everything Is Illuminated

  • Rise of the Planet of the Apes

  • Fargo

  • Captain America: The First Avenger

  • Ted

  • Drive

  • Paranorman

  • Carnage

  • House of Flying Daggers

  • 2046

  • Crazy Stupid Love

  • The Campaign

  • Dare

  • Cinderella Man

  • Alfie

  • Rango

  • The King's Speech

  • Lawless

  • We Have To Talk about Kevin

  • Menace 2 Society

  • The Experiment

  • Hesher

  • All the King's Men

  • The Disappearance of Alice Creed

  • Monster

  • Never Let Me Go

  • Midnight in Paris

  • Cyrus

  • American History X

  • Hanna

  • Raising Arizona

  • The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey

  • The Majestic

  • Forrest Gump

  • Black Dynamite

  • Quiz Show

  •  Django Unchained

  • The Fugitive

  • Inglorious Bastards

  • Driving Lessions

  • Game Change

  • In The Mood For Love

  • Girl with the Dragon Tattoo

  • Frida

2013

  • J. Edgar

  • Goon

  • Paper Man

  • Brokeback Mountain

  • Conversations With Other Women

  • Looper

  • The Words

  • 12 Monkeys

  • Shame

  • Closer

  • Death of a Salesman

  • Beginners

  • The Talented Mr. Ripley

  • Million Dollar Baby

  • 2001: A Space Odyssey

  • Lean On Me

  • Real Steel

  • Monster's Ball

  • 50/50

  • Fast & Furious 6

  • Seeking a Friend For The End Of The World

  • Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy

  • Mystic River

  • A Dangerous Method

  • Life of Pi

  • Pain & Gain

  • Men in Black III

  • Cloud Atlas

  • Detachment

  • Moonrise Kingdom

  • My Week with Marilyn

  • Rust & Bone

  • One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest

  • Identity Theft

  • The Sessions

  • Edward Scissor hands

  • Dirty Rotten Scoundrels

  • The Wolverine

  • Thank You For Smoking

  • A History of Violence

  • 2 Days in New York

  • Don Jon

  • Erin Brockovich

  • 12 Years a Slave

  • Silver Streak

  • Sunday in New York

  • Cadillac Man 

  • The Master

  • Death Proof

  • Jackie Brown

  • The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug

  • Fullmetal Alchemist : Conqueror of Shamballa

2014

  • Kinky Boots

  • Anchorman 2: The Legend Continues

  • American Hustle

  • The Place Beyond The Pines

  • Oblivion

  • We're The Millers

  • Silver Lining Playbook

  • Hunger Games: Catching Fire

  • Dallas Buyer's Club

  • Rushmore

  • The Grand Budapest Hotel

  • Captain America 2: The Winter Soldier

  • Blue Jasmine

  • X-Men: Days of Futures Past

  • Prisoners

  • Atonement

  • Eastern Promises

  • Lone Ranger

  • New Jack City

  • The Player's Club

  • A Case Of You

  • Kings Of Summer 

  • Changeling

  • Clerks

  • She Hates Me

  • Real Life

  • The Producers

  • Gone Girl

  • Dear White People

  • Interstellar

  • About Time

  • The Hobbit: The Battle of Five Armies

  • The Usual Suspects

  • Her

2015

  • The Interview

  • Panic Room

  • Dawn of the Planet of the Apes

  • Dom Hemingway

  • Whiplash

  • To the Wonder

  • A Most Violent Year

  • The Animatrix

  • Avengers: Age of Ultron

  • Boyhood

  • Children of Men

  • Girl Fight

  • Private Parts

  • Nightingale

  • The Railway Man

  • Inside Llewyn Davis

  • John Wick

  • Sex Ed

  • Chef

  • You're not You

  • Begin Again 

  • Fury

  • Birdman or ( The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance)

  • Straight Outta Compton

  • The Drop

  • Filth

  • Nymphomaniac: Vol 1 & 2 Director's Cut

  • The Disappearance of Eleanor Rigby (Him&Her)

  • Beasts of No Nation

  • Nightcrawler

2016

  • The Hateful 8

  • Spotlight

  • Tortilla Soup

  • Batman v. Superman: Dawn Of Justice

  • The Martian

  • Creed

  • Blazing Saddles

  • Southpaw

  • Hollywood Land

  • The Revenant

  • The Thin Red Line

  • The Stanford Prison Experiment

  • Brick

  • The Night Before

  • End Of Watch

  • Me & Earl & Dying Girl

  • White Palace

  • Steve Jobs

  • The Danish Girl

  • Get on The Bus

  • The Wrestler

2017

  • Mississippi Masala

  • Awakenings

  • Brooklyn

  • The Assassination Of Jesse James By The Coward Robert Ford

  • Logan

  • Punch - Drunk - Love

  • Dirty Harry

  • The World According To Garp

  • Youth

  • Saban’s Power Rangers

  • Willy Wonka & The Chocolate Factory

  • Swiss Army Man

  • Split

  • Clerks II

  • The Town

  • Friday Foster

  • The International

  • Loving

  • Trance

  • A Bronx Tale

  • Hell Or Highwater

  • Charlie Wilson’s War

  • Do The Right Thing

  • Money Monster

  • Cowboy Bebop: Knockin’ on Heaven’s Door

  • Jackie

  • The Grey

  • Scott Pilgrim VS The World

  • Thank You For Your Service

  • Moonlight

  • Hunger

  • Lion

  • Baby Driver

  • Windriver

  • American Psycho

  • A Cure For Wellness

  • The Patience Stone

  • John Wick Chapter 2

If you have the time do yourself a favor and checkout a few of these films and tell me what you thought of them.

Hope You Enjoy

-Andrew