Above is my title-sequence design for the thriller film Mirror's Twin, written by my Typography professor in collaboration with ChatGPT. What follows is a compilation of my design work for this project including a Hollywood-grade formatted script, movie props & scene impressions as derived from the script, and finally a movie poster. My big takeaway from this class was learning how to apply my designs to physical real life objects, as well as the staging and photography that follows (I <3 photography).

CAFE SCENE

This set is inspired by the scene where Devon experiences a flashback to a Parisian café by the Seine. I changed the same of the café from "The Memory" to "The Blue Rose" in alignment with the full plot I imagined unfolding. The script calls for a swinging sign but I instead opted for glass signage.

POSTCARD SCENE

This shot of my postcard props illustrates a nocturnal scene in Devin’s apartment in which she studies them intensely. Laying nearby the postcards is a tea light and matchstick, an opened lipstick (to be used in the scene), and, also from this mysterious sender of enigmatic verses about whispering-love, a sealed envelope with a blue rose on it. Inside is a pale blue rose petal.

MOVIE POSTER

In my opinion, Mirror’s Twin gives off a very Hitchcockian, film noir, late 1940s vibe, so I set the film accordingly, and in a city which Alfred Hitchcock greatly admired and used as a shooting location for many of his films - San Francisco.

For my movie poster design, in continuation with a noir-inspired interpretation of the film, I drew from Hitchcock posters such as Vertigo, designed by Saul Bass, which uses bright reds and repetitive imagery to instill suspense, and also Psycho which utilizes slicing graphics in order to communicate conceptual ideas about the film. I also drew from Rebecca, a haunting film similar to this one, and with a leading lady.

MORE PROPS

The photo used above is a picture I took of Converse Marketing in Peoria, IL. I edited it to look aged.

This is a Photoshop generative fill AI transformation. Left is a picture I shot on 120mm Kodak Portra color film, and right is the output. I asked AI to “change the background to a view of the Seine”, and to “add a blue cupcake”.