PULSAR PICTURES

FILM PRODUCTION

Identity & Activation

2021 & 2024

Academic Project

Pulsar Pictures is a fictional independent film production company developed as the capstone project for my final year in the Advanced Diploma of Graphic Design at Conestoga College. The project focused on building a complete visual identity for a company dedicated to producing and curating independent films, with an emphasis on creating a brand that feels tangible, cinematic, and expressive.


I developed a full suite of branded assets—including logo design and identity, motion content, posters, merchandise, and website prototyping to explore how design can shape a company’s presence across both digital and physical platforms. While the project was centred around bringing the brand to life visually, I also used it as an opportunity to deepen my skills in under-utilized tools by incorporating animation with After Effects and video editing using Premiere Pro and DaVinci Resolve. These tools played a key role in shaping several dynamic components of the brand and allowed for a richer, more immersive execution.


This capstone project represents both a culmination of my design education and a personal exploration into multimedia storytelling and brand development. Alongside the final design assets, I also created a brand guide to accompany the project to tie together all of the motifs and aesthetics into one cohesive deliverable, and to further practice a fundamental part of creating an identity. Lastly, I also tracked all of my progress through the project's journey, and culminated this progress into a book to document the process and use it as a resource for projects to come.

Social Media Video

Title Sequence

Brand Trailer

Social media rules over what we interact with every day, and is most people's main source of contact with the world on any given day. A brand, conceptual or real, needs to face the reality that social media is integral in the successful outreach of a company, a business or any brand. This is a social media post to emulate what Pulsar Pictures looks like when you're doomscrolling and happen to stumble upon a piece of the brand.

Another big piece of this project for me was the attempt at making it feel like it was an existing entity and that it was out in the world. More niche than social media, but for a film production company that first 30 seconds of a film is where you get to see that brand spanning your TV, your laptop or a theatre screen. Think of that MGM lion opening or 20th Century Fox or Marvel or Universal and now even A24 (shout out independent cinema for being so mainstream). You know them by that opening sequence, and I wanted to show Pulsar in that company, through the use of stock footage and a brand animation, this clip takes you from title sequence to jumping right into the film.

The last piece of video content I created for Pulsar — or I should say the last piece I finished, as this was technically the first piece of the project I started to theorize — is what I can only call a trailer.


This trailer serves as a cinematic manifest for the kind of stories Pulsar Pictures aspires to curate and produce. While the films featured within it are not directly affiliated with the conceptual development of Pulsar—and in many cases are celebrated works from major studios (some aforementioned)—their tone, emotion and atmosphere reflect the voice Pulsar seeks to embody. In a landscape where films the potential to figuratively speak so many languages and volumes, Pulsar's aim is to speak in a tone that resonates deeply with those who seek emotional connection with visual storytelling. It's a voice for audiences who want to feel something when they go to the movies and seek something meaningful in what they watch. Those looking for honesty, vulnerability and resonance in the stories that they choose to consume.


This trailer was created as both a video editing exercise but also a way to show fragments of films that resonate with me, and to reach out to those who feel that they took something from one or some of these films and to connect that back to what it means to have a film produced by Pulsar Pictures.