Return to Sender
Job Title: Graphic Designer
Director: Russell Goldman
Production Designer: Lisa Dooley
Return to Sender is a horror short film about a woman show gets caught up in a delivery scam to disastrous results. My main task was to help the team build and establish the fictional e-commerce website that would appear throughout the film; I provided them not only with templates they could alter and customize in post production, but also with interactive screens they could have the actor interact with on set. A lot of the tension of the film comes from reviews and notifications that periodically appear on the actor’s phone; it was really rewarding to work on assets that were so integral to the telling of the story.
Using a particular popular site for inspiration, I had to make a version with branding that was distinct enough to be legally cleared for use. This started with an original logo for “smirk” and ballooned into lots of iterations of product pages, checkout windows, and more. For moments when the actor would be interacting with the site practically, these had to be prepared for use both on a laptop and an iPhone.
Logo concepts
Smirk Select Logo
Guardrail Select Logo
Smirk App Icon
Smirk Website Interfaces on laptop
Additional iPhone UI (Static & Interactive)
Smirk Website on iPhone (Interactive, Scrollable)
Fictional Banking Site