Quinten Fermstad's profile

Silversun Pickups // Skin Graph

I N T R O D U C T I O N
I have always been attracted to the emotional responses created from the combination of audio and video. Using these tools I created an emotional video designed to resonate with the audiences own experiences of grief. What makes the video successful was a combination of the songs droning and subtle undertones with experimental camera movements, focal shifts, and altered time to represent the characters diegetic response. The audience members empathize with the father as he follows the stages of depression that ultimately lead to his suicide. Although it ends with death, the story presents the idea of an afterlife through the father's distorted reality.
 
 
 
B E H I N D   T H E   S C E N E S
Light set up for "hospital" scene
Actors discussing scene
Make up application
Actor (Taylor Warr) getting ready for the field scene
Applying fake nails
Actor (Sam Blacketer) getting into character
P R E   P R O D U C T I O N
Song microanalysis conceptualizing the story following the Kübler-Ross model of the 5 stages of grief.
Editing notes and shot list
Silversun Pickups // Skin Graph
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Silversun Pickups // Skin Graph

WWU senior project that depicts the struggle a father faces after the death of his wife and child due to birthing complications. Directed, prod Read More

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