This styleframe sequence was made in collaboration with Jonathan Kusnadi, a classmate of mine in Daniel Marsh's Sequential Design 2.
The sequence reflects the film's themes of memory, love, and loss through photography of elements relating to the story.
The sequence reflects the film's themes of memory, love, and loss through photography of elements relating to the story.
Final styleframes, full sequence.
After their relationship falls apart, Joel and Clementine
choose to erase each other from memory.
The title comes from a poem by Alexander Pope—on the peace of forgetting, and the pain that doesn’t go away.
choose to erase each other from memory.
The title comes from a poem by Alexander Pope—on the peace of forgetting, and the pain that doesn’t go away.
Narrative sequence of the film.
This was our final mood and visual design reference board.
Fragments from the poem are printed, submerged, and filmed as they fall apart. Ink lifts off the page and drifts into the water, just as the memory drifts away.
Our initial storyboard (drawn by Jonathan).
Everything shot practically—
real printed cards, real ink, real water.
real printed cards, real ink, real water.
Behind the scenes of our shoots. Me behind the camera, Jonathan helping construct the scenes.
Our compositing flow—Jonathan did the color correction in Lr before passing it off to me for chromatic aberration and effects in Ae, and type which was laid out in Ai, processed in Ae, and integrated in Ps.
A drift downward into love, loss, and what’s left behind.
