BIG TIME
“Big Time” – This piece follows a character as he navigates another day in the never ending loop of a criminal. The audience follows him on what should be “just another hit” when a simple robbery takes an aggressive pivot, breaching the house to find out he’s been set up. Though a chaotic ride we see the character never gets a moment of peace, ending in a warehouse where he makes a choice by feeding the loop. We curated this piece to speak to the never ending toxic loop of street life, how one thing always leads to another, and fighting hate with hate will breed more hate. This was inspired by an artist’s true story about his life in Vancouver.
To curate the feeling of unease and grittiness we kept it close and personal with a classic film style up until the character leaves the car to breach the home. From here we hop into our 1st of three moving masters. Each filming style combined with seamless transition iterates the up and down through the storyline and creates what feels like a cohesiveness between the three separate moving masters. Our goal with this was to never let the audience breath.
SLEEPLESS
“Sleepless” follows two characters as they cope in their different worlds. As we exit the world that almost seems to exist only in their minds and enter back into reality, the characters, almost by the will of the universe, pump into each other on the street. Just before they get a chance to revisit whatever feelings where there, an life obstacle comes between them.
We wanterd to portray the different worlds through framing and color. We used a warm tone for the male to convey more of a “holding on” feel and a blue tone for the female, portraying a colder “denial or moving on” feel. This pursuit is also conveyed through the characters’ interactions with the mirror.
PIECES
“Pieces” – This piece follows a character as he spirals to cope. The audience follows him on his journey of deterioration as he treks through the night to find solace in his outlet, only to turn back. We curated this piece as a homege to men struggling with mental illness, showing the toxicity in men’s coping mechanisms and their reluctance to call out for help.
Our aim was to create an uncomfortable feeling of anxiety and chaos through a run-and-gun filming style. Shaky camera movements, quick aggressive cuts and natural lighting to make it feel grounded in reality. Techniques such as undercranking the frame rate helped emphasize his distorted reality.