BEFORE THE DAWN
LEVEL FILM, 2021 (browser)
CREATIVE DIRECTOR
Leading a two-member team, I crafted the original concept as a prequel to the film, nuanced the vision in collaboration with the film’s director, Jefferson Moneo, created the mother character and adapted Aurora’s character as a youth, storyboarded and outlined the narrative, wrote the full script and dialogues, created visuals and sourced imagery, and mixed raws from the original score MGMT’s Andrew VanWyngarden.
ABOUT
A short prologue interactive trailer for the film Cosmic Dawn, commissioned by Level Film. The artsy, and occasionally trippy, film is about a UFO cult and a woman’s struggle with self-identity after the disappearance of her mother during a camping trip as a child.
The minimalist, story-driven game is set during the camping trip many years before the events of the film and sets up the central mystery. A conversation between mother and daughter while watching a meteor shower, the game uses images and facts about The Voyager Mission along with Carl Sagan’s metaphysical thinking to create a branching experience that moves from the cosmic romantic into the melancholic or psychedelic.