Biography:
Jana Williams is an American documentary photographer and visual storyteller based in Philadelphia. Their practice in photography touches on ideas of spectatorship and the oppositional gaze, voyeurism and representation of the black female body...
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Focus:Photographer, Photo Assistant, Portraiture
Covering:USA & Canada
Skills:Image Archiving, Digital Printing, Photo Assisting, Color Correction, Film Scanning, Adobe InDesign, Photo Editing, Black & White Printing, Color Printing, Photojournalism, Retouching, Film Photography
School:
Parsons School of Design
Moore College of Art & Design
MediaXarts: Cinema for New Technologies and Environments
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Horizon - Final Cut Titles + Closing Credits
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Jana Williams
2024
Updated Sep 2022
Horizon is a short film about a Native American Man and Immigrant Woman whose paths collide in a dramatic narrative of life and death. Set in the desert on an isolated reservation Horizon creates a conversation around immigration, discussing themes of power and pain. Horizon ultimately takes a dark turn leaving the audience behind with many questions about the future of the immigrant woman. Through color correcting and color grading, and a minimal underscore my post treatment will reflect the mood and dramatic tensions of this film’s poignant script. The film opens up with a flash forward to the man in his bathroom vomiting and in some kind of agony brought on by the inciting incident. This flash forward also reveals the man’s addictions and making the s. This scene I imagine to be dark and somewhat desaturated to illustrate the emotions and pain felt by the character. The film then cuts to present day at dawn with the same man driving his truck home and staring at the sunrise. The driving scenes leading up to the inciting incident and the drive home will be balanced with a slight cast, shifting from a cool morning light to warm afternoon light once the man reaches his home.