Over the Wall is a powerful, performance driven revenge-drama/thriller set in the visually explosive, uber popular world of dirt track racing. It’s a passionate portrayal of true love in its darkest hour, testing the boundaries of the human heart, friendship and the ties that bind us all together.
I want to create a cinematic film ripe with emotion. A film that engages the audience to think and feel using solid, well drawn characters involved in a complex, dramatic story with shocking twists and reveals. A film that explores such universal themes as love, betrayal, friendship and guilt. Themes that have haunted my own adult life.
Visually and tonally, I see this film as a cross between Take Shelter & Monster’s Ball, both of which boasted stellar performances and a fluid, unobtrusive camera that enhances the story by drawing the audience into the characters and the world they populate.
The beginning of Over the Wall is bright and expansive. The colors, like the characters, are crisp and saturated. The use of wide angle lenses makes everything feel open, alive and connected. One of the most important dramatic elements of the story to me is the sense of entrapment these characters feel after the home invasion. How they each become racked with an unbearable feeling of guilt which causes their world to grow progressively smaller and more claustrophobic. To enhance this element, the colors will become progressively greyer, like their mental state. Coupled with this, the lenses will get progressively longer as the characters become more and more isolated from each other -- giving the visual impression of lone figures populating empty landscapes.
I want to tell a story about love conquering all -- a story about ordinary, hardworking people chasing their version of the American dream and dealing with the harsh reality of watching it slip away.
I’ve always believed that true love can never be broken, no matter what you throw at it. It may be strained and stretched to the point of breaking but if it’s true, if it’s the real deal, it will survive – even under the most horrific of circumstances. I often wonder if my own relationship could survive this kind of grueling test. If I would survive, given the same circumstances. Maybe that’s the reason I am so passionate about telling this story – because I don’t know.
I want to create a cinematic film ripe with emotion. A film that engages the audience to think and feel using solid, well drawn characters involved in a complex, dramatic story with shocking twists and reveals. A film that explores such universal themes as love, betrayal, friendship and guilt. Themes that have haunted my own adult life.
Visually and tonally, I see this film as a cross between Take Shelter & Monster’s Ball, both of which boasted stellar performances and a fluid, unobtrusive camera that enhances the story by drawing the audience into the characters and the world they populate.
The beginning of Over the Wall is bright and expansive. The colors, like the characters, are crisp and saturated. The use of wide angle lenses makes everything feel open, alive and connected. One of the most important dramatic elements of the story to me is the sense of entrapment these characters feel after the home invasion. How they each become racked with an unbearable feeling of guilt which causes their world to grow progressively smaller and more claustrophobic. To enhance this element, the colors will become progressively greyer, like their mental state. Coupled with this, the lenses will get progressively longer as the characters become more and more isolated from each other -- giving the visual impression of lone figures populating empty landscapes.
I want to tell a story about love conquering all -- a story about ordinary, hardworking people chasing their version of the American dream and dealing with the harsh reality of watching it slip away.
I’ve always believed that true love can never be broken, no matter what you throw at it. It may be strained and stretched to the point of breaking but if it’s true, if it’s the real deal, it will survive – even under the most horrific of circumstances. I often wonder if my own relationship could survive this kind of grueling test. If I would survive, given the same circumstances. Maybe that’s the reason I am so passionate about telling this story – because I don’t know.
