Jazz_without_Patriarchy
[2024]
[art direction]
[motion design]
[video editing]
[App design]
Exhibit branding, documentary-style animated videos and a custom touchscreen application - all highlighting 101 of the most influential women in the history of Jazz music.
Project was for Grammy-Award-Winning Jazz Drummer – Terri Lyne Carrington's traveling exhibit 'Jazz Without the Patriarchy' through Berklee College of Music's Jazz and Gender Justice Department.



'Truth_be_told'
35-minute biopic, highlighting 4 of the most legendary women of jazz from the 20th century - Alberta Hunter, Lil Hardin Armstrong, Melba Liston, & Maxine Sullivan.
I was given a small selection of historical photos from each artist and animated them to music to create a title/intermission sequence to attract attention to the display. I then placed a photo of each artist and cut their stories up in a shuffle for the video with dyamic text captions.


'IN conversation'
'In Conversation' is a visualized conversation between legendary musicians Mary Lou Williams and Geri Allen as they recount their careers and the struggles they faced.
Much like the Truth Be Told video, I created a colorful title sequence cut with music and then intersperced it throughout the video to attract attention and set the tone. For this one I focused more on creating a looping background video of clips and photos from each artist's career then animted dynamic captions on top.
I collected photos and clips of each artist and created a loop that plays while the 2 women have their converstion. The highlight of this was having Geri Allen's nephew coming through and being so excited about the video and thanking me for helping tell his mother's story.

Touchscreen_music_book
The center piece of the show was a fully-explorable digital music book that housed photos, bios, and music notes along with playable music from each of the 101 women artists. I was given 101 portraits of each woman and challenged with making an engaging and educational touchscreen application.
To differentiate the artists and add some color, I created 12 unique backgrounds that also corresponded to that randomly shuffled behind each artists portrait and designed the content CMS to filter by genre, name, and songs.




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