older and living in New York and trying
to pursue your dreams, with the added
obstacle of, ‘How do I engage with this
smartphone in my hand as a way to prove
to my friends that I’m fine?’” Morris said.
“Walking that fine line to me was the juicy
part and the thing that was like, ‘Yes — I
can get behind this.’”
To tell this story, the “Keep Me Posted”
team had to create a certain look and
feel on screen, partly through the text,
email and social media notifications and
other graphics that pop up throughout
each episode, and partly through the sets
where they filmed.
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Production designer Kristen Robinson,
who has been a Sunnyside resident since
2013, was in charge of designing and
implementing the visuals for the series,
meaning that she dealt with “something
as small as what a salad looks like on a
plate to arranging furniture or taking a
location that’s a bar and turning it into a
restaurant,” she explained.
Robinson primarily works as a theater
set designer, and she said that her work
on this web series was more hands-on
than her theater work.
“It was a lot more visual research
and then finding the right objects and
dressing that would fit in our world in our
budget,” Robinson said.
She works in a studio in Long Island City,
and she loves how many artists are in her
building and in the community as a whole.
“What’s so great about having my studio
and my apartment this close to each other
is that it really makes me feel connected
to the community here,” she said. “I get
up and walk to my studio space every day
and it’s just nice to get a sense of who’s
out there.”
You can watch all three 20-minute
episodes of “Keep Me Posted” on its
website, keepmepostedseries.com.
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Photos courtesy of Caitlin Morris and Hillary Nussbaum