The objects of films, although many times overlooked, can become major components of the film’s narrative, and in some cases may even become representative of things larger than themselves. For this project we had to create a matchbook that could easily slip into the world of our film. I chose the film The Fall (2006), an imaginative adventure set in the 1900s that tells the story of a paralyzed soldier in a hospital and his friendship with a young girl.

A significant portion of the movie takes place in the young girl’s imagination, and I wanted to create a matchbook that suggested the majesty of this other realm but that existed in reality. In the movie the girl has a box of interesting, foreign items, and I wanted this to be an item that would spark her wonder and tie into the whole of the story. I illustrated the monkey and butterfly (two characters in the imagined world). This project involved developing the images in Photoshop, featuring selected typefaces, producing the material product, and documenting the product through photography.