Skills Production Design, Directing, Cinematography, Editing
Team Individual Project
Short Film
In this title sequence, I set out to build a world of post-industrial urban sprawl made of streetlights and rain-soaked parking lots, a hunting ground where an alien parasite could roam unnoticed, while also providing some narrative establishment of the creature’s alien origins and its unfamiliarity with a human skin.
Process
For a show about an alien inhabiting a human skin, I set out to create a title sequence that was narrative, detailing the parasite settling into a human body for the first time.
So, I built it with visuals suggesting the creature’s unfamiliarity with a human body – tugging on the alien shape of an ear, muscles twitching as they navigate foreign body mechanics –and suggesting the donning of a second skin with visuals like putting on latex gloves.
The typography continues to build the dark, alien world of the story. I built in large gaps between words and used a ghost-like font weight to further the sense of the world being unsettling, somehow not quite right.
I wrote, directed, shot, and edited this film.
©Sam Rauch 2024