GRAPHIC MEDICINE, VIDEO PRE-PRODUCTION, CONCEPT ART
Unmaking Medical Inadmissibility in Canadian Immigration Law
Unmaking Medical Inadmissibility visualizes the stories of people with chronic illness who have first-hand experience applying for permanent residency. The project introduces medical inadmissibility and its implications to students and the general public, invoking empathy and activism through art and storytelling.
TOOLS
Procreate; Camtasia Studio
TEAM
Ujwal Mantha, Tania Montoya, Aida Radoncic, Jessica Ye, Zihan Yi, Amy Zhang, Dr. Laura Bisaillon
MY ROLE
Concept art, storyboarding, illustration
DURATION
12 weeks (May - August 2020)
IN THE MEDIA
FUNDING
Canadian Bar Association’s Law for the Future Fund;
Jackman Humanities Institute Scholars-in-Residence
CLIENT
Dr. Laura Bisaillon, Interdisciplinary Centre for Health & Society, University of Toronto Scarborough
CONCEPTUATION
Our initial brainstorm resulted in the idea of using graphic stories to convey medical experiences. I created concept art that helped establish the mood for our final product.
PRE-PRODUCTION
We extracted paragraphs from Dr. Bisaillon's monograph that spoke to the demographic contradictions of medical inadmissibility. Using our research, we wrote a script telling the stories of three characters with experiences of medical inadmissibility - Martha, Winnie, and Stella. We divided the script amongst ourselves to storyboard, and came together with our supervisor to provide feedback and revisions. Using these storyboards, we made an animatic used to guide production of our video.
PRODUCTION
Video production and sound design was done by our teammate Zihan using Premiere. The final video will be used in dissemination (general public) and teaching (undergraduate humanities students). Below is an excerpt of the video I worked on.