Main Title Sequence
REN
Design, Animation, Compositing
This is the main title for the award winning documentary #chicagoGirl. The aim is to take the viewer on a visual journey of what it's like for Ala'a, the focus of this documentary, to organize a protest in Syria from her laptop and cellphone in The United States.
I worked closely with Director Joe Piscatella to craft a design language based on the prevalent social networks at the time (Facebook & YouTube specifically) that would help to tie the audience closer to the experience of Ala'a with familiar shapes, colors, iconography and snappy animations.
"The Syrian Regime as The Godfather"
ren
Design, Animation, Compositing
This segment of the film explains the rise of Bashar al-Assad using a family portrait as a visual device paired with narration making analogues to The Godfather Trilogy. The only image available to work with was the archival photograph of the Al-Assad family portrait. To achieve the shot, each character was isolated and placed in a 3D environment for a camera to fly through with lighting accents timed to the narration.
Additional Graphics Reel
ren
Design, Animation, Compositing
This reel is a collection of some of the graphics I made in addition to the Main Title and the Godfather Photo, for the documentary #chicagoGirl.
The goal of the graphics package was to create a visual language that took its cues from the aesthetics of social media design at the time applied to the film's subject, a Syrian-American woman who wields social media organization as a tool to organize protests and the resistance in the Syrian Civil War. The complete package included ID's, lower thirds, graphic segments, and internal text cards.
Being a massive follower of politics and world events, it was a great pleasure to have the opportunity to lend my art to help tell an important story.
