Short film

This Isn't How I Pictured It

2025 · 29 min

A short, wry slice of one chaotic day, breezy and cringe-adjacent, with a young woman's ambitions wobbling under comic pressure.

Overview: A young aspiring model has a very, very bad day, and starts to reconsider her career choice in the fashion industry.
How it feels: Light, satirical, tense and earnest. Brisk and easy to follow.
About: Identity, ambition, work, coming-of-age
Content: Mild sexual content and language. No violence or gore.
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Tone: lightstrength 2 of 3
satiricalstrength 2 of 3
tensestrength 1 of 3
earneststrength 1 of 3
Pacing: brisk, 3 of 4, from slow-burn to relentless
Attention: easy-watch, 2 of 4, from background-friendly to demanding
Themes: identity
ambition
work
coming-of-age
class
Places: big city
workplace
Era: contemporary
Audience: teen
Form: None
Content intensity: Gore none
Language mild
Violence none
Sex mild