Soundtrack Your Life
Style Frames, Illustration, CollaborationPROGRAM
︎︎︎Photoshop
BRIEF
Designing a one minute short film for Spotify demonstrating the power of music.
CONCEPT
Going for an emotional approach, we wanted to explore how music can heal and bring hope, whilst touching on the isolating effect of mental illness. Playing on the trope of a depressed character in a bathtub, we placed them in a stormy ocean to represent the turmoil within, while butterflies flock on them to represent the heaviness of their problems. Hope is seen through a green light from a lighthouse that pierces the darkness and lifts the butterflies off. As the ocean calms down, they begin to pull themselves up. It’s not a happy ending, but it’s the beginning of a better one.
Designing a one minute short film for Spotify demonstrating the power of music.
CONCEPT
Going for an emotional approach, we wanted to explore how music can heal and bring hope, whilst touching on the isolating effect of mental illness. Playing on the trope of a depressed character in a bathtub, we placed them in a stormy ocean to represent the turmoil within, while butterflies flock on them to represent the heaviness of their problems. Hope is seen through a green light from a lighthouse that pierces the darkness and lifts the butterflies off. As the ocean calms down, they begin to pull themselves up. It’s not a happy ending, but it’s the beginning of a better one.
ROLE
︎︎︎Concept, Story, Character Design, Storyboard
COLLABORATORS
︎︎︎Cash Huang ︎︎︎
︎︎︎Christina Ha ︎︎︎
︎︎︎Concept, Story, Character Design, Storyboard
COLLABORATORS
︎︎︎Cash Huang ︎︎︎
︎︎︎Christina Ha ︎︎︎
MOODBOARD
IDEATION
Looking beyond existing Spotify promotional materials, I wanted to develop a different point of view. I focused on the healing power of music, and how Spotify brings that hope even in the darkest times.
CHARACTER DESIGN
I started with a more playful, young and expressive character, but switched over to a more solemn figure to further highlight the feeling of hopelessness in the beginning of the sequence.
PROCESS
