Motion Short Film Lookbook

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motion Time is the angel and devil present throughout the inseparable relationship between beauty and pain

LOGLINE A GIRL WHO STRUGGLES WITH SELF-LOVE AND CONTROL, DISCOVERS THE ABILITY TO PAUSE TIME, AND USES THAT ABILITY TO HELP HER PARALYZED FATHER INSTEAD OF USING IT FOR HERSELF. AFTER HER DAD PASSES AWAY, SHE STRUGGLES WITH PARANOIA, ANXIETY, AND DEPRESSION. This causes her to hallucinate and have her whole life be controlled by obsession.

synopsis While juggling the bale between focusing  her n problems and taking care of her palyzed father, Marissa discovers the ability to pause time. Hever, instead of using it  herself, e uses it to help her palyzed father instead of healing her n tuma and taking the time to have her n life. When her dad passes away, e revisits the time e was ling her dad in her nightmares to fix the situati and see what the problem is, despetely trying to hold to anything related to her father. In the end, e ends up realizing what e needs to do to discover her real identity and what kind of pers e wants to bece.

CHARACTERS DAD: CHILDISH, HAPPY, CAREFREE, ENTHUSIASTIC, AND COMEDIC

MARISSA: LIGHTHEARTED, EMOTIONALLY DRIVEN, RESPONSIBLE, AND UNAWARE

OLIVER: BEST FRIEND, PLAYFUL, OUTGOING, INDIRECT, AND CARING

TIME: INDIFFERENT, EMOTIONALLY ABUSIVE, EMPATHETIC, AND NONEXISTENT

DAD.

DAD.

MARISSA. her eyes reminded me of tinted windows, she could see out, but you couldn’t see in

OLIVER.

TIM

IME.

CASTING REFERENCES DAD- optimistic, joyful figure and the center of Marissa’s life and provides movement even though he’s paralyzed

TOM SELLECK

GREG KINNEAR

STEVE CARELL

MARISSA- A girl who discovers the ability to pause time and has her whole life dedicated to her father until he passes away and loses herself completely desperately trying to scrape together a new life.

ELLEN PAGE

SELENA GOMEZ

In terms of looks*

OLIVER- a young, playful best friend that wants to protect Marissa from any more harm that could enter her life.

KJ APA

NOAH CENTINEO

CARETAKER-friendly, responsible woman who deserves respect from everyone.

HALLE BERRY

LISA GAY HAMILTON

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CREATIVE CORRESPONDING FILMS

Marissa is a character that undergoes a lot of stress to where she has to deal with her dad’s death, but also the death of who she was before. In these films, the character undergoes stages of grief, but also has to find out how to be themselves again whilst dealing with the battle of time.

BLACK MIRROR

BE RIGHT BACK

THEMES &

DUE TO THE CHANGES IN MARISSA’S LIFE, COLOR PALETTE CH PASSING OF MARISSA’S FATHER, IT’S BECOME A GRIM WORLD FO PAINTINGS MIXING TOGETHER FORMING A CIRCU

& TONES

ANGES FROM WARM, HAPPY, BRIGHT COLORS TO GRIM COLORS WITH HINTS OF VIBRANCY. DUE TO THE OR HER. TIME IS NO LONGER A GIFT TO HER, IT’S AN UNWANTED CHORE. THE WORLD AROUND HER IS LIKE ULAR STORY. THE BEGINNING BECOMES THE END AND THE END BECOMES THE BEGINNING.

LIGHTING EXAMPLES FOR STILL ⇢

DIRECTOR’S STATEMENT

My family and friends are a really big part of my life and recently my grandfather passed away. Watching my grandmother go through that grief of losing the most important thing in her life was truly the most devastating process I think I will ever observe. This made me want to tell the story of true grief, because in every other film or television show I never saw the true story of grief. I want to show what happens after, before, outside, and inside. However, I also wanted to tell an interesting story that also combined my own interests. A lot of my own difficulties, include restless nights from working all night or nightmares terrorizing my own mind. One night, I had a nightmare that the whole world was paused just for me. I was alone, scared, excited, and amazed. I woke up and felt almost attached to this idea of time genuinely being mine and telling me everything I needed to know.

Time became my best friend, but soon became my enemy. Motion was born through my own greatest dreams and fears. I became obsessed with this story working on it for basically twenty four hours everyday for months. I combined my love of beauty and pain to pursue art in ways that in my opinion haven’t been explored completely. I wanted to combine reality with fantasy and pursue a story to show how having a power doesn’t necessarily give you power. Essentially, showing that your inner angels can become devils and your inner devils can become angels.

This story isn’t just about characters in a movie but about the audience watching the movie; changing the way movies should be entertained.

Film isn’t just about people watching for entertainment, it’s also about people growing through experiences in which they leave a different person they were before they went through that experience the filmmaker provided. Motion’s audience is very wide that anyone who has ever hurt before could leave the film feeling different than they were before. Motion is about creating movement in the audience through sci-fi and drama to capture the essence of reality and incorporating our imagination.

HIBA SAID Writer/Director

IF I STAY

BE RIGHT BACK

COLLATERAL BEAUTY

Will you let grief dictate your life?

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