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Afterglow | Senior Thesis
“Afterglow” is an abstract, surreal short film exploring the emotional experience of pressure, self-judgment, and failure. Using a star as a symbolic character, the film visualizes the fear of hitting rock bottom, the resulting collapse, and the transformation that follows.
Rather than treating failure as an ending, the project reframes it as a point of ignition, creating space for growth, clarity, and self-transformation.
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I led the rebrand and creative direction to help reposition Planet Football for a younger, more social-first audience. The goal was to rediscover the brand’s playful identity and evolve it into a more engaging and distinctive presence across digital platforms.
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Ten years of wandering compressed into a single unbroken shot. The camera never cuts and never stops moving forward: it pushes low through the burning ruins of Troy, into black smoke, out over a storm at sea, through
whitewater into a fire lit cave, down into deep water, then up and out onto
a sunlit shore - ending at an open doorway with warm light spilling out.
Home.
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journey, and a journey is a camera that never stops. So every transition
between worlds happens by passing through opaque matter - smoke, a wave, cave darkness, water - never by cutting.
Two deliberate constraints: no human faces anywhere in the film, and no
sight of the cyclops itself, only its shadow on the cave wall. The traveller is the camera, and what you don't see does more work than what you do.
Built entirely in CapCut Video Studio with Dreamina Seedance 2.5. Single
text-to-video generation, 30s, timestamped beat by beat. One prompt, one
take, no cuts.
Strong entry! Clean visuals, clear idea, and a really satisfying ending. 🔥