Taylor Swiftmay be fairly new to filmmaking, but she knows cinema all too well.
Swift cited 1970s romances as her primary influence on her visual style and the short’s aesthetic.
“I wanted Her’s apartment to beher.
Taylor Swift’s movie inspirations.Everett; Taylor Swift/YouTube; Everett
I wanted it to look like who she is, and I wanted the same for his space.
Clean and cool, and mature.
“I wanted this short film to feel like autumn,” she said.
“I referenced the filmLove Story,and when I think of that film, I think of autumn.
I was trying to establish that in the earlier parts of the short film.
When they’re falling in love, I wanted it to feel warmer.”
Turning to film classics is nothing new for Swift.
“I have always loved certain films during certain phases I was in musically,” she noted.
She dipped even further into the world of period pieces next.
“The next record I was nonstop watchingSense and Sensibility,the Ang Lee one,” she said.
“That was for an album calledEvermore.
I have very specific film memories for things.”
