Pink Parasites
As a part of a grad school academic project, I created a short film using Kinetic Typography based on a poem written by my sister - Pink Parasites. The poem illustrates the concept of peer pressure, pink being an attractive color, and parasites as they slowly consume us from inside.
The peer pressure that we succumb to most of the time leads to loss of identity and individuality, eventually making us someone who's just a part of the herd.
Date
May, 2020
Video Duration
01:00 min
Category
Motion Design | Kinetic Typography
Tools
Adobe Photoshop | Adobe Illustrator Adobe After Effects | Cinema 4D
Pink Parasites,
My knuckles - white,
But my grip,
Isn’t enough tight,
As they feed in from all sides,
Slowly sucking out me from me,
And I, I blend in,
Like a shipwreck,
Accepting it’s demise,
Tearing apart bit by bit,
Becoming another slice of the ocean’s might.
I wanted to use color, form, and typography in an abstract tone to create a visual and aural cacophony that communicates the message while making it emotionally and psychologically charged to reflect the discomfort, anxiety, worthlessness, and desolation.
Typeface used - Avenir
Modernism movements like Futurism, Post Modernism design aesthetics, or works of Saul Bass played a key role in defining the visual tone of the film. The noise and fragmentation added to the dramatic and experimental style.
Poem - Smriti Singh (MWS, TIS Mumbai, India)
Music - Youtube Free Audio Library
Voiceover - Brooke Katia Collins (MFA, College of Art and Design, Rochester Institute of Technology, 2021)