Movie Title Design: Pen15
This comedy series depicts middle school as it really happened. Comics Maya Erskine and Anna Konkle play versions of themselves as teenage outcasts in the year 2000, during a time when the best day of your life can turn into the worst with the stroke of a gel pen. Adult Maya and Anna -- as their younger selves -- are surrounded by actual teenagers as they re-experience some of the ups and downs of middle school life
Approach
Based on my research I wanted to make collages, cut-outs, or a live-action of 2000s items I still owned myself or could magically find out in the world. A lot of tiny rotation movements of items quick jumps, and a lot of college rule paper or composition books with stickers from the 2000s. Gen pen typography, or love letter unfolding, AIM to message to introduce characters. Very pop punk music can play in the background. I’m a very big fan of Napoleon Dynamite's Opening title sequence, so I knew that was a direction I wanted to try myself, for example, center framed, colorful, vibrant, and quirky.
Storyboard 1
Storyboard 2
Visual Develpment
After I figured out how I wanted the story to be told, I gathered whatever Y2K items I could find whether I owned them or made it myself. Once my props were gathered, I tested the camera set up on the props I had made and found laying around to recreate my storyboard in a high wireframe.
