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Title Sequence, Photography

American Splendor (2003) is a biographical comedy-drama of Harvey Pekar, the author of the American Splendor comic book series. In this film, Harvey Pekar is shown as a distraught man living in between the real world and the comic adaptation version of the world that he created which drastically changes his life. To keep true to that motif of the movie, my main visual strategy was to utilize projection as a framing device that symbolizes the relationship between the real Harvey Pekar and the cartoonized version of him from his comic book. The projected images represent the objects that exist in both worlds which also show the connectivity between the real and the fake world. The fabric is the main surface where all the objects are being projected onto and represents the empty canvases where he writes and draws his comic stories. 

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Mentor: Ming Tai

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Collaborators: Individual Project

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Role: Concept Development, Design, Storyboarding,
          Photograph, Set Design

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Tools: Photography, Photoshop, Lightroom, After Effects

In order to achieve these frames, I hung a piece of white cloth to the wall and let it flow naturally. This allowed the fabric to create beautiful shapes and wrinkles on the perfect white cloth. Then I projected large images onto the entirety of the surface and captured the most dynamic points of view for each frame while trying to keep a cohesive narrative flow. 

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