![]() ![]() I wanted to be so close we could count freckles,” Swift explained. “I wanted to show closeness in handheld shots. ![]() “The further back you are from something, the more of it you can see.”Īnd indeed, that’s exactly what she did with the All Too Well film. Swift later offered some good advice about perspective for anyone else going through a tough time: “Timing and perspective just adds such a better view,” she said. I’m very happy with where my life is now.” … A lot of my hardest moments and moments of extreme grief or loss were galvanized into what my life looks like now. I was not able to own my work and I had wanted to since I could remember,” she said. “I’m in this situation talking about a short film that I am incredibly proud of because I lost all of my work. Something similar, Swift said, has happened in her own life, as she recalled how not owning her masters led to her rerecording her old albums, which included releasing the 10-minute version of “All Too Well” as part of the Red rerelease. This dream and hope that she had of being a writer, I think her experience with him is what galvanized her into her life and her career.” “He’s taken a lot from her in the course of this story but he’s also given her something. She complimented it and he gave it to her,” Swift explained. “Later we see her typing on this typewriter and we assume that he gave it to her. There’s also, as Swift fans have come to expect, an Easter egg in the form of a red typewriter that first appears in a quick pan when viewers meet O’Brien’s character. “One day she’ll write a book and she’ll fictionalize his character into a main character in the novel,” Swift said, adding that the chapter markers in the film are “chapters in her novel.” Sink’s character, as viewers see in All Too Well, is a writer, and Swift explained that she foreshadowed that with the Pablo Neruda quote at the beginning of the film and Sink’s character wondering if she made up O’Brien’s character. Speaking specifically about All Too Well, Swift explained how she used visual clues as forms of foreshadowing and to better reflect the characters’ emotions. “I have to constantly be aware that, as much as it’s a constant challenge for me to be doing something new, I also understand that it’s still extremely hard for women to make films, and I am always keeping an eye on that reality.” “I’m also extremely aware of my privilege when it comes to being a female filmmaker, because I was able to finance this film myself,” she said. Still, she explained, she’s very much aware of the challenges faced by female filmmakers. I loved making a film that was so intimate with a group that was really small and a really solid group of people that I trusted.” “I don’t see it being bigger in terms of scale. “It would be so fantastic to write and direct a feature,” she said. While conceding that she’s still learning, Swift was clear that she approached the 15-minute All Too Well as a short film, “not a music video.”Īnd she said she “would love” to helm a movie. “So the list of things that I was absorbing became so long that eventually I thought, ‘I really want to do this.'”Īnd then once she started directing she didn’t want to stop, saying, “I found it incredibly fulfilling.” “I would just be around it and be in my head like, ‘I love that they did that’ ‘I would have done that differently,'” she said. Swift said for a while she grappled with “imposter syndrome,” feeling like directing was “something that other people did.” “And all of my favorite female directors were booked and busy, which is great. I wanted a female director to direct it,” she said. “My first instinct was to write the treatment, send it out. ”īut she conceded that she began directing “almost out of necessity” on “The Man.” “And it’s been a different approach for each. “It felt very natural to extend writing a song and visualizing it in my head to making a shot list and storyboarding it and picking who we wanted as the head of each department and who would help put all of this puzzle together,” Swift, who has also helmed the music videos for “Cardigan” and “Willow,” said. About 10 years ago, she explained, she started writing elaborate treatments for her videos and “outsourcing the directing,” but she saw taking the lens as a “natural extension of storytelling and writing.” Taylor Swift Releases New Song "Carolina" for 'Where the Crawdads Sing'
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