Sugarcoated solitude Zine
This was a project born from passion, my affinity for styling and layout curation as well as concept ideation and implementation. The premise was to create a visual work which combined an earlier concept of personal muse curation as well as the world they resided within, intertwined with a film. My muse was a hopeless romantic, resigned and comforted by her solitude and stunning torment. The film was Buffalo 66, directed by and starring Vincent Gallo. The resulting digital zine was my interpretation of their combined presence, styling my muse to fit into specific scenes, disrupting the aching emotion of a desperation for love.
My concept and resulting zine began by rewatching the film and scribbling tedious notes, pulling quotes and emotions I deemed fitting. I then began constructing page and layout concepts as well as styling looks to fit specific scenes or perform particularly pressing quotes. From there I chose my model and directed her performance of my narrative and collected inspiration. After shooting, I compiled all my content into InDesign and began constructing and editing the layouts. Thus, sugarcoated solitude was created and titled to perform the concept of beautiful, desperate torment. This project allowed me to showcase layout construction, graphic arrangement, styling, photography, and writing skills, giving me the chance to master the confidence of creation within this format.
Process
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This project began within the parameters of marrying my Bittersweet muse with a film, focusing on an emotion the two bodies of work shared. I wanted to highlight my affinity for multi-media overlays while staying true to my stylistic inclinations with an overarching focus on emotion.
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The construction process started with re-watching the film Buffalo 66, pausing frame-by-frame to detail hidden underlying emotions, styling, narrative gems, and script quotes which perfectly performed the emotions being expressed. I had pages of descriptions by the final scene.
Post viewing, I moved into a desire to style and construct looks for Wendy the protagonist, imaging different ways she might show up if she had changed from the singular look she dawned for the duration of the film. Finding ways to combine the depth and range of the details I had outlined.
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When moving into the production phase of my process, I played out all of the content I had gathered, the stylized looks I curated, the photographs I had directed in these stylized looks, movie quotes, and supplementary digital imagery. I moved into Photoshop to manipulate my imagery and photographs and then translated these pieces into InDesign where I worked on layout and creating a cohesive narrative from my constructed elements.
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This project allowed me to showcase layout construction, graphic arrangement, styling, photography, and writing skills, giving me the chance to master the confidence of creation within this format.