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Transportation Theory

I used the tight frame on feet to apply Transportation Theory (Green, M. C., & Brock, T. C., 2000) — a psychological process where the viewer experiences mental and emotional immersion in a narrative. They temporarily lose awareness of their immediate surroundings and become psychologically transported into the story world, increasing persuasion and behavior change, and reducing skepticism.

Cinematic Craft

This film pushed the boundaries of the cinematic frame by focusing myopically on feet while exploring a full narrative arc. We used an Arri Alexa cinema camera on a steadicam rig with a 21-person production crew, shot across twelve locations over three days.

Emotion Without Faces

To evoke emotion without seeing faces and with minimal dialogue, we used sound design, music, and pacing to communicate story beats — like when the protagonist hustles out of her waitressing job and runs through hospital hallways to see her dying father.

Stories allow us to project our own perspective into a hypothetical reality to model emotions and behavior (Murray, J. 1997). But this perspective-switching only works if the story feels real. The majority of my films use a documentary-based approach — the subject's natural authenticity allows viewers to immerse and fuse with their perspective more easily. My "docu-narrative" process is consistent across mediums, forming the backbone of my XR pieces too.