Jennifer Terrano's Reel

This is not to be taken seriously and not a professional piece of work, but it IS what my sense of humor and writing can be like, combined with amateur make-up and theatrics, as well as shamelessly bad webcam choreography. This was how I kept myself sane when I was a student. I just wanted to share my personality with this one!

Vimeo says it best: "Reflection" is a film directed, shot and edited by Leslie Seder, Jennifer Terrano, and Cecelia Zechmann for a two-week 16mm film course offered in Portland, Oregon: Cinema in the City. The class was co-taught by Bushra Azzouz from the Northwest Film Center and André Sirois from the University of Oregon Cinema Studies program.

This was my final film for Digital Video Production, where my Murnau & Hitchcock passions most obviously culminated! I plotted a story about discovering I had a doppelgänger who was following me about campus, but it ended up being too ambitious to fit into finals. My instructor accepted this as my entire piece. I shot 95% of it by myself on a couple chilly October nights.... but my roommate agreed to be my stunt-double, and a friend flicked the lights. This was edited before I could pick...

This is a quickly thrown together reel of images I created for a school project. We were asked to re-imagine a fairy tale in a particular style or genre, and we settled on "animated Tim Burton", set in Japan. The music we used in the reel is Ryuichi Sakamoto's "Merry Christmas, Mr. Lawrence", and a section of the score from Hayao Miyazaki's "Spirited Away". The illustrations themselves were done in about a week's time -- and I lost much sleep over it. Unfortunately, our deadline did not leave all of them looking very polished. It was still a super interesting challenge!