Headversity Sport; Athlete Program - Vignette 2
The Athlete Program by Headversity Sport teaches youths how to maintain physical and mental health, maintain healthy teammate relationships and stay safe. One of the learning tools was a fictional story about a new player on a youth soccer team and the challenges he faced.
This narrative for which I did character designs and illustrations as well as storyboards was told through a series of short vignette animations. The second scene in the narrative showed protagonist Kenji grappling with the toxic behaviour of team captain Malik.
Headversity Sport; Athlete Program - Vignette 5
The penultimate scene in the learning program narrative in which the protagonist learns the value of humility in salvaging damaged teammate relationships.
CERT; Mental Health Foundations Vignette 4
Headversity's Mental Health Foundations program is a certification-based training program that utilizes story-based vignettes similar to Respect Group's programming. The continuous narrative told across instalments followed Samir; a sous chef facing the effects of increasing mental stress at his restaurant. The challenge of this particular scenario was creating interesting shorts that told Samir's story particularly in basic mental health care practices that carried over narration without specific action. This was done through creative framing transitions and pacing.
CERT; Psychological Safety Vignette 2
Another certification-based training program by Headversity, the Psychological Safety program also utilized narrative vignettes that covered bullying an inappropriate behaviours in the workplace. This particular series followed the challenges faced by Carlos; the Safety Director of a construction company.
Many of these scenarios were purely conversational with little to no action, so the challenge came in making these scenes interesting through framing and shot layout. As a differently-abled character bound to a wheelchair, this presented interesting use of camera angles to frame power imbalances between characters as well as perspective shifts through the course of conversations.
