Mirage
August 2019
The title "Mirage" means something that appears real or possible but is not in fact so. Mirage is a short film revealing one’s hidden desire to escape mundane reality by daydreaming while at work.
Tools Used - Live Action, Green screen, Adobe After Effects, Cinema 4D, Redshift Render, Adobe Premiere, Adobe Audition
Collaborators - Portia Barrientos, Dawon Kang, Hyunjoon Kim
Role - Direction, Design, Animation, Storyboarding
Director of Photography - Charles C. Rose
Film
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Story
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The protagonist is an office worker daydreaming of traveling. The piece starts inside
the daydream, where the protagonist discards his mundane office life and experiences various destinations through a surreal experience. Afterwards, the sequence cuts
to the protagonist seated at his office desk, at work, revealing that everything pre-
viously had been a daydream. He picks up his suitcase and leaves work.
Mirage is structured in three acts.
Act 1: Entry
Act 2: Dream
Act 3: Reality
Collage
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Collages were made of various, unrelated elements to create surreal and fun spaces.
Process
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Everything was touched on from props including items inside the suitcase, the ticket, the ship wheel, the binocular to set design and collages.
