REEL & SCRAP
Movie Journal · Scrapbook · Midnight Screening
REEL & SCRAP treats cinema as memory fragments taped into a private notebook. We borrow the warmth of a personal movie journal — its kraft-paper ticket stubs, its handwritten margin notes, the washi tape and pushpins holding it all together — and let the films themselves become the photographs pressed between the pages. Every poster is a stub, every review is a clipping, every dispatch is a sticky note stuck crookedly beside the lamp.
The Corkboard Wall
Our homepage opens with a corkboard covered in memories: ticket stubs, polaroids and postcards pinned at slight angles with colored pushpins and washi tape. Flick a stub and it lifts like you brushed it with a finger; the pushpin's shadow deepens. Red cotton threads connect related stubs like clues on a detective wall — click a stub to light up its threads and pulse the stubs it leads to.
The Notebook & Tape Collage
Beneath the corkboard, the page opens like a lined notebook. Reviews are magazine clippings torn at the edges and pasted in, their images faded to monochrome. Features are folded kraft-paper pages held shut with red washi tape — click the tape to unfold them. Quick news arrives on yellow sticky notes that fall from the top of the screen, sway gently, and can be dragged wherever you like. Square stills are layered ticket collages; click any stub to bring it to the top.
The Index Card Box & Borrow Register
The sidebar is a library index card box: small upright cards with raised tabs, the most-borrowed films protruding forward. Hover a card and it tilts toward you like a real card catalog. Beside it sits an open borrow register where visitors leave short reviews in different handwritings, each one writing itself in character by character as if freshly penned. A box of rubber stamps lets you ink your vote onto the ballot paper, and a small monthly calendar keeps the screening schedule — past dates crossed out in red pen, today circled.
The Shoebox Archive
The footer is an open cardboard shoebox. Classics are kraft-paper envelopes with red CLASSIC stamps — pull the string to slide the letter out. Deep dives are a stack of developed old photos with white borders and date stamps, swipeable left and right. The logo is a hand-carved rubber stamp: a film strip curled into a heart. A lined sticky note bids you farewell beside a steaming coffee cup, and a blank library card waits to be stamped APPROVED when you subscribe. Tonight's screening is here. Next time, we won't miss each other.