San Juan Hill, A Vanished NYC Community
Shotlist Breakdown
San Juan Hill, A Vanished NYC Community
3 min | Independent Short Film
A history-inspired short film created from The New York City Municipal Archives. "San Juan Hill, A Vanished NYC Community," reconstructs a demolished New York neighborhood with real historical photographs and generative imagery to reconstruct a demolished New York neighborhood and it’s vibrant neighborhood.
Role: Concept, Character Design, Motion Design, Animation, Title DesignAudio: Veinte Años, 1935. Written by Guillermina Aramburú, Performed by Maria Teresa Vera, Courtesy of Egrem. ©Socidad Española de Ediciones Musicales
Time
Shot
Shot Description & Role
0:00 - 0:05
01
Description: Title animation subway tile wall, sun rolls across “San Juan Hill.”
Role(s): Concept, title design animation
Full
Dolly
eye level
Interior
0:05 - 0:15
02
Description: Hands add title to unfinished mural, tiles glitter in the sunlight.
Role(s): Direction, characters, animation
CU
pan
eye level
exterior
0:10 - 0:15
03
Description: Pull back to see street scene of musicians and dancers
Role(s): Direction, characters, animation
Full
Dolly
eye level
exterior
0:15 - 0:20
04
Description: Sunlight cascades across the the murals surface, the color scene shifts to a realistic black and white scene in motion
Role(s): Direction, characters, animation
Full
Dolly
eye level
exterior
0:20 - 0:30
05
Description: Characters dance and enjoy their neighborhood and the lively hispanic music
Role(s): Direction, characters, animation
Full
Dolly
eye level
exterior
0:30 - 0:35
06
Description: Girls and neighbors react, dancing halts and two character embrace
Role(s): Direction, characters, animation
Full
Dolly
eye level
exterior
0:35 - 0:40
07
Description: Camera pans, turning to face housing and people on the streets and stoops. Dust rolls in from right. Text fades up then off
Role(s): Direction, characters, animation, title design
WS
pan
eye level
exterior
0:40 - 0:45
08
Description: People vanish from the streets
Role(s): Direction, characters, animation
WS
Dolly
eye level
exterior
0:45 - 0:46
09
Description: Dust rolls in. time has passed, a wrecking ball swings to take down the building
Role(s): Direction, characters, animation, title design
MED
Dolly
eye level
exterior
0:46 - 0:56
10
Description: Woman watches the wrecking ball take down her block
Role(s): Direction, characters, animation, title design
MED
Dolly
OTS
exterior
0:56 - 1:00
11
Description: She clinches her fist
Role(s): Direction, characters, animation, title design
MED
Dolly
OTS
exterior
1:00 - 1:05
12
Description: She bends down, selecting small pieces of rubble and tile
Role(s): Direction, characters, animation
CU
Dolly
High angle
exterior
1:05 - 1:12
13
Description: Sunlight rakes across her hands to signify a change
Role(s): Direction, characters, animation
CU
Dolly
High angle
exterior
1:12 - 1:15
14
Description: The black and white scene shifts to full color
Role(s): Direction, characters, animation
CU
Dolly
High angle
exterior
1:15 - 1:25
15
Description: Cut to see older woman add small tiles to complete the mural
Role(s): Direction, characters, animation
CU
Dolly
eye level
exterior
1:25 - 1:30
16
Description: Cut then camera pans to see woman and neighbors gathering to celebrate her completed mural
Role(s): Direction, characters, animation
WS
pan
eye level
exterior
1:30 - 1:35
17
Description: The woman pauses to see the final mural... a young man comforts her
Role(s): Direction, characters, animation
Full
Dolly
eye level
exterior
1:35 - 1:40
18
Description: The woman artist remembers the history of the mural and the younger girls she once was in a vastly changed neighborhood
Role(s): Direction, characters, animation, title design
Full
Dolly
eye level
exterior
1:40 - 1:42
19
Description: Image credits
Role(s): Title Design
1:42 - 1:50
20
Description: Cut to archival images of the San Juan Hill neighborhood
Role(s): Direction, characters, animation, title design
Caption: 256 West 62 Street
Full
Dolly
eye level
exterior
1:50 - 1:55
21
Description: San Juan Hill archives
Role(s): Direction, characters, animation, title design
Caption: 216 West 67 Street
Full
Dolly
eye level
exterior
1:55 - 2:00
22
Description: San Juan Hill archives
Role(s): Direction, characters, animation, title design
Caption: 230 West 62 Street
WS
Dolly
eye level
exterior
2:00 - 2:05
23
Description: San Juan Hill archives
Role(s): Direction, characters, animation, title design
Caption: 225 West 63 Street
WS
Dolly
eye level
exterior
2:05 - 2:10
24
Description: San Juan Hill archives
Role(s): Direction, characters, animation, title design
Caption: 224 West 63 Street
WS
Dolly
eye level
exterior
2:10 - 2:15
25
Description: San Juan Hill archives
Role(s): Direction, characters, animation, title design
Caption: 203 West 62 Street
WS
Dolly
eye level
exterior
2:15 - 2:20
26
Description: San Juan Hill archives
Role(s): Direction, characters, animation, title design
Caption: Lincoln Center, 1940
WS
Dolly
eye level
exterior
2:20 - 2:25
27
Description: Modern day San Juan Hill, now Lincoln Center - renovating.
Role(s): Direction, characters, animation, title design
Caption: Lincoln Center, April 2026
CU
Dolly
eye level
exterior
2:25 - 2:38
28
Description: Modern day San Juan Hill, now Lincoln Center - renovating.
Role(s): Direction, characters, animation, title design
Caption: Lincoln Center, April 2026
WS
Dolly
eye level
exterior
2:38 - 2:45
29
Description: Title animation of title “San Juan Hill.”
Role(s): Title Design
Full
Dolly
eye level
Interior
2:45 - 2:50
30
Description: Music Credits
Role(s): Title Design
2:50 - 3:00
31
Description: Logos, SVA, MFACAAudio: fades to silence
Role(s): Title Design
© 2026 Kelly Shoemaker
San Juan Hill, A Vanished NYC Community
Shotlist Breakdown
San Juan Hill, A Vanished NYC Community
3 min | Independent Short Film
A history-inspired short film created from The New York City Municipal Archives. "San Juan Hill, A Vanished NYC Community," reconstructs a demolished New York neighborhood with real historical photographs and generative imagery to reconstruct a demolished New York neighborhood and it’s vibrant neighborhood.
Role: Concept, Character Design, Motion Design, Animation, Title DesignAudio: Veinte Años, 1935. Written by Guillermina Aramburú, Performed by Maria Teresa Vera, Courtesy of Egrem. ©Socidad Española de Ediciones Musicales
Time
Shot
Shot Description & Role
0:00 - 0:05
01
Description: Title animation subway tile wall, sun rolls across “San Juan Hill.”
Role(s): Concept, title design animation
MCU
Still
eye level
Interior
0:05 - 0:15
02
Description: Hands add title to unfinished mural, tiles glitter in the sunlight.
Role(s): Direction, characters, animation
CU
pan
eye level
exterior
0:10 - 0:15
03
Description: Pull back to see street scene of musicians and dancers
Role(s): Direction, characters, animation
Full
Dolly
eye level
exterior
0:15 - 0:20
04
Description: Sunlight cascades across the the murals surface, the color scene shifts to a realistic black and white scene in motion
Role(s): Direction, characters, animation
Full
Still
eye level
exterior
0:20 - 0:30
05
Description: Characters dance and enjoy their neighborhood and the lively hispanic music
Role(s): Direction, characters, animation
Full
Still
eye level
exterior
0:30 - 0:35
06
Description: Girls and neighbors react, dancing halts and two character embrace
Role(s): Direction, characters, animation
Full
Still
eye level
exterior
0:35 - 0:40
07
Description: Camera pans, turning to face housing and people on the streets and stoops. Dust rolls in from right. Text fades up then off
Role(s): Direction, characters, animation, title design
WS
pan
eye level
exterior
0:40 - 0:45
08
Description: People vanish from the streets
Role(s): Direction, characters, animation
WS
Still
eye level
exterior
0:45 - 0:46
09
Description: Dust rolls in. time has passed, a wrecking ball swings to take down the building
Role(s): Direction, characters, animation, title design
MED
Still
eye level
exterior
0:46 - 0:56
10
Description: Woman watches the wrecking ball take down her block
Role(s): Direction, characters, animation, title design
MED
Still
OTS
exterior
0:56 - 1:00
11
Description: She clinches her fist
Role(s): Direction, characters, animation, title design
MED
Still
OTS
exterior
1:00 - 1:05
12
Description: She bends down, selecting small pieces of rubble and tile
Role(s): Direction, characters, animation
CU
Still
High angle
exterior
1:05 - 1:12
13
Description: Sunlight rakes across her hands to signify a change
Role(s): Direction, characters, animation
CU
Still
High angle
exterior
1:12 - 1:15
14
Description: The black and white scene shifts to full color
Role(s): Direction, characters, animation
CU
Still
High angle
exterior
1:15 - 1:25
15
Description: Cut to see older woman add small tiles to complete the mural
Role(s): Direction, characters, animation
CU
Still
eye level
exterior
1:25 - 1:30
16
Description: Cut then camera pans to see woman and neighbors gathering to celebrate her completed mural
Role(s): Direction, characters, animation
WS
pan
eye level
exterior
1:30 - 1:35
17
Description: The woman pauses to see the final mural... a young man comforts her
Role(s): Direction, characters, animation
MCU
Dolly
eye level
exterior
1:35 - 1:40
18
Description: The woman artist remembers the history of the mural and the younger girls she once was in a vastly changed neighborhood
Role(s): Direction, characters, animation, title design
MCU
Still
eye level
exterior
1:40 - 1:42
19
Description: Image credits
Role(s): Title Design
1:42 - 1:50
20
Description: Cut to archival images of the San Juan Hill neighborhood
Role(s): Direction, characters, animation, title design
Caption: 256 West 62 Street
Full
Still
eye level
exterior
1:50 - 1:55
21
Description: San Juan Hill archives
Role(s): Direction, characters, animation, title design
Caption: 216 West 67 Street
Full
Still
eye level
exterior
1:55 - 2:00
22
Description: San Juan Hill archives
Role(s): Direction, characters, animation, title design
Caption: 230 West 62 Street
WS
Still
eye level
exterior
2:00 - 2:05
23
Description: San Juan Hill archives
Role(s): Direction, characters, animation, title design
Caption: 225 West 63 Street
WS
Still
eye level
exterior
2:05 - 2:10
24
Description: San Juan Hill archives
Role(s): Direction, characters, animation, title design
Caption: 224 West 63 Street
WS
Still
eye level
exterior
2:10 - 2:15
25
Description: San Juan Hill archives
Role(s): Direction, characters, animation, title design
Caption: 203 West 62 Street
WS
Still
eye level
exterior
2:15 - 2:20
26
Description: San Juan Hill archives
Role(s): Direction, characters, animation, title design
Caption: Lincoln Center, 1940
WS
Still
eye level
exterior
2:20 - 2:25
27
Description: Modern day San Juan Hill, now Lincoln Center - renovating.
Role(s): Direction, characters, animation, title design
Caption: Lincoln Center, April 2026
CU
Dolly
eye level
exterior
2:25 - 2:38
28
Description: Modern day San Juan Hill, now Lincoln Center - renovating.
Role(s): Direction, characters, animation, title design
Caption: Lincoln Center, April 2026
WS
Still
eye level
exterior
2:38 - 2:45
29
Description: Title animation of title “San Juan Hill.”
Role(s): Title Design
Full
Still
eye level
Interior
2:45 - 2:50
30
Description: Music Credits
Role(s): Title Design
2:50 - 3:00
31
Description: Logos, SVA, MFACAAudio: fades to silence
Role(s): Title Design
© 2026 Kelly Shoemaker
San Juan Hill, A Vanished NYC Community
Shotlist Breakdown
San Juan Hill, A Vanished NYC Community
3 min | Independent Short Film
A history-inspired short film created from The New York City Municipal Archives. "San Juan Hill, A Vanished NYC Community," reconstructs a demolished New York neighborhood with real historical photographs and generative imagery to reconstruct a demolished New York neighborhood and it’s vibrant neighborhood.
Role: Concept, Character Design, Motion Design, Animation, Title DesignAudio: Veinte Años, 1935. Written by Guillermina Aramburú, Performed by Maria Teresa Vera, Courtesy of Egrem. ©Socidad Española de Ediciones Musicales
Time
Shot
Shot Description & Role
0:00 - 0:05
01
Description: Title animation subway tile wall, sun rolls across “San Juan Hill.”
Role(s): Concept, title design animation
MCU
Still
eye level
Interior
0:05 - 0:15
02
Description: Hands add title to unfinished mural, tiles glitter in the sunlight.
Role(s): Direction, characters, animation
CU
pan
eye level
exterior
0:10 - 0:15
03
Description: Pull back to see street scene of musicians and dancers
Role(s): Direction, characters, animation
Full
Dolly
eye level
exterior
0:15 - 0:20
04
Description: Sunlight cascades across the the murals surface, the color scene shifts to a realistic black and white scene in motion
Role(s): Direction, characters, animation
Full
Still
eye level
exterior
0:20 - 0:30
05
Description: Characters dance and enjoy their neighborhood and the lively hispanic music
Role(s): Direction, characters, animation
Full
Still
eye level
exterior
0:30 - 0:35
06
Description: Girls and neighbors react, dancing halts and two character embrace
Role(s): Direction, characters, animation
Full
Still
eye level
exterior
0:35 - 0:40
07
Description: Camera pans, turning to face housing and people on the streets and stoops. Dust rolls in from right. Text fades up then off
Role(s): Direction, characters, animation, title design
WS
pan
eye level
exterior
0:40 - 0:45
08
Description: People vanish from the streets
Role(s): Direction, characters, animation
WS
Still
eye level
exterior
0:45 - 0:46
09
Description: Dust rolls in. time has passed, a wrecking ball swings to take down the building
Role(s): Direction, characters, animation, title design
MED
Still
eye level
exterior
0:46 - 0:56
10
Description: Woman watches the wrecking ball take down her block
Role(s): Direction, characters, animation, title design
MED
Still
OTS
exterior
0:56 - 1:00
11
Description: She clinches her fist
Role(s): Direction, characters, animation, title design
MED
Still
OTS
exterior
1:00 - 1:05
12
Description: She bends down, selecting small pieces of rubble and tile
Role(s): Direction, characters, animation
CU
Still
High angle
exterior
1:05 - 1:12
13
Description: Sunlight rakes across her hands to signify a change
Role(s): Direction, characters, animation
CU
Still
High angle
exterior
1:12 - 1:15
14
Description: The black and white scene shifts to full color
Role(s): Direction, characters, animation
CU
Still
High angle
exterior
1:15 - 1:25
15
Description: Cut to see older woman add small tiles to complete the mural
Role(s): Direction, characters, animation
CU
Still
eye level
exterior
1:25 - 1:30
16
Description: Cut then camera pans to see woman and neighbors gathering to celebrate her completed mural
Role(s): Direction, characters, animation
WS
pan
eye level
exterior
1:30 - 1:35
17
Description: The woman pauses to see the final mural... a young man comforts her
Role(s): Direction, characters, animation
MCU
Dolly
eye level
exterior
1:35 - 1:40
18
Description: The woman artist remembers the history of the mural and the younger girls she once was in a vastly changed neighborhood
Role(s): Direction, characters, animation, title design
MCU
Still
eye level
exterior
1:40 - 1:42
19
Description: Image credits
Role(s): Title Design
1:42 - 1:50
20
Description: Cut to archival images of the San Juan Hill neighborhood
Role(s): Direction, characters, animation, title design
Caption: 256 West 62 Street
Full
Still
eye level
exterior
1:50 - 1:55
21
Description: San Juan Hill archives
Role(s): Direction, characters, animation, title design
Caption: 216 West 67 Street
Full
Still
eye level
exterior
1:55 - 2:00
22
Description: San Juan Hill archives
Role(s): Direction, characters, animation, title design
Caption: 230 West 62 Street
WS
Still
eye level
exterior
2:00 - 2:05
23
Description: San Juan Hill archives
Role(s): Direction, characters, animation, title design
Caption: 225 West 63 Street
WS
Still
eye level
exterior
2:05 - 2:10
24
Description: San Juan Hill archives
Role(s): Direction, characters, animation, title design
Caption: 224 West 63 Street
WS
Still
eye level
exterior
2:10 - 2:15
25
Description: San Juan Hill archives
Role(s): Direction, characters, animation, title design
Caption: 203 West 62 Street
WS
Still
eye level
exterior
2:15 - 2:20
26
Description: San Juan Hill archives
Role(s): Direction, characters, animation, title design
Caption: Lincoln Center, 1940
WS
Still
eye level
exterior
2:20 - 2:25
27
Description: Modern day San Juan Hill, now Lincoln Center - renovating.
Role(s): Direction, characters, animation, title design
Caption: Lincoln Center, April 2026
CU
Dolly
eye level
exterior
2:25 - 2:38
28
Description: Modern day San Juan Hill, now Lincoln Center - renovating.
Role(s): Direction, characters, animation, title design
Caption: Lincoln Center, April 2026
WS
Still
eye level
exterior
2:38 - 2:45
29
Description: Title animation of title “San Juan Hill.”
Role(s): Title Design
Full
Still
eye level
Interior
2:45 - 2:50
30
Description: Music Credits
Role(s): Title Design
2:50 - 3:00
31
Description: Logos, SVA, MFACAAudio: fades to silence
Role(s): Title Design
© 2026 Kelly Shoemaker