Documentary Style DNAA Filmmaker Preset Explorer
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Build Your Profile

Place your own approach on the same 8 axes as the corpus's 16 filmmakers: by slider, or by answering situational questions. Nothing here is saved anywhere but your own browser.

Build a provisional profile

Pick a starting point. The questionnaire begins with production situations; manual editing works directly with the eight axes. Either route gives you a hypothesis you can revise, compare, export, or discuss.

This tool models the choices you select. It doesn't measure authorship, originality, ethics, or the worth of a film.

My saved profiles

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Read the profile as a hypothesis. It records the choices you made in this model; it doesn't rank films or filmmakers.

Nearest structural references

The closest positions in this eight-axis model. Read them as prompts for comparison, not as claims of lineage or influence.

Nichols affinity

A provisional reading

Reflect on this profile

  • Which two choices shaped this profile the most?
  • Which nearby filmmaker is a useful comparison, and which nearby match feels misleading?
  • What part of your project can these eight axes not hold?
  • What would you change after talking this profile over with a collaborator or tutor?

Assignment: build a profile for your project, export it, then write about 300 words on two axis choices, one useful comparison with the corpus, and one thing this model leaves out.

Profiles built here are stored only in this browser (localStorage), never on a server. Nearest-neighbor scores and Nichols affinity use the same heuristic 8-dimension formula as the rest of this site, not a validated measurement. Read the full scope & limitations →