loss isn’t something that happens once and it’s over with.
people leave echoes in your soul that will ring long after they've gone.
you will lose her over and over again. you’ll lose her when you wake up in the morning and she isn’t next to you. you’ll lose her every time you realize that she’s no longer in all the places you used to be together.
and the more you lose, you start to think… maybe the pain of reliving it is better than having to forget her. because at least if you remember, she’s never truly gone.
the story
WANE
A love story told through the lens of loss.
A hopeless romantic desperately searches the night for the woman that haunts her.
"A"
our main character.
type a.
intimidating. seems like a lone wolf, but is actually just shy.
works in IT.
"B"
the love interest.
type b.
easygoing but secretly has plans for world domination.
works in marketing.
TEST SHOT
COLOUR STORY
ANIMATIC
AES
THE
TIC
nostalgia, early 2000s-2010s, y2k
In my original pitch, I wanted to pursue a 60s aesthetic for the nostalgia, but I realized that wasn’t what nostalgia actually meant to me.
Nostalgia is personal. For me, it's running around the city with my friends in the dead of night, feeling like the world was going to end. My youth was captured with a crappy phone camera.
There's a unique rawness in a low-quality image. Instead of a perfectly framed shot, it’s flawed, you can tell that there was actually just a regular person behind the camera. And that’s what makes it feel human to me.
VISUAL GOALS
2010s bokeh light trend
cold gunmetal aesthetic
filters either very yellow or too blue
2010s night city, grunge, raincouver
whole thing looks like it was shot on a phone
found footage