Humanity is losing. That is the premise of Survive: a fictitious film set in a world overpowered by disease, where humanity is at war with the microscopic forces that threaten it. I made the official trailer for that film at Parsons in 2019.
The work moved through three phases: storyboarding and scriptwriting alongside logo design, a rough draft trailer, and a final polished cut. The full pipeline, from concept to delivery.
The toolkit matched the ambition. 3D animation in Cinema4D, motion graphics in After Effects, editing in Premiere Pro, sound design and mixing in Audition, and finishing work in Photoshop, Illustrator, and Media Encoder. The narration came from Amazon Polly, Amazon’s AI text-to-speech service. A synthetic voice that still sounds cinematic. Original music by Aleksandr Shamaluev. Made under the guidance of Faiyaz Jafri.
I was really working on believability: how design and motion can build a world that does not exist and still create real emotional investment in a story that only lives on screen. Every step of the pipeline, from the first storyboard to the final mix, gave me an answer.
The official trailer is on this page. So is the draft trailer, and the brainstorming pages that show where it started.
