“I have a way of filming things and staging them and designing sets. There were times when I thought I should change my approach, but in fact, this is what I like to do. It’s sort of like my handwriting as a movie director. And somewhere along the way, I think I’ve made the decision: I’m going to write in my own handwriting. That’s just sort of my way.” – Wes Anderson

Anderson is a filmmaker who focuses everything on the centre of things. I’ve taken influence from this throughout my whole project and really like the central style he displays. This video shows how his shots all have a central line in them and everything is symmetrical, similar to my work. He also uses quite pastel colour schemes which I haven’t really followed in my photography work as I prefer more contrasting and darker photos. However I do like his colour schemes too. I also like that with Anderson’s work, it’s very individual and unique and I hoped to create photos that are similar to this. I wanted to have a style of photography that is recognizable as being by the same photographer and I think I have achieved this, especially with my portraiture work.

I’ve been influenced by Anderson’s work throughout most of my briefs and think he’s applicable to most of my photographs. Examples of how my work has been influenced by Wes Anderson: