Short Anti-Bullying Videos

On Friday, Aaron Pate and I, along with some volunteers from the theater department filmed four short videos for an anti-bullying campaign.

Hallway Scene

The series is comprised of 4 short videos depicting different scenarios where bullying takes place.  Our actors were wonderful and I will be sure to post some links once I'm done editing.

Party Scene

Interview Scene

We shot in a room called the "Black Box" and it is just that a room painted completely black.  So I brought in a three point lighting kit.  Two soft-boxes lighting the front and then a 500w backlight. Aaron and I wanted the background to be complete dark to add to the severity of the subject but to also allow for some ambiguity to where these situations may take place.

Lighting Diagram for Hallway Scene

In post, I added various tweaks, a slight curve, color correcting, etc. Then added an effect called Neat Video, which does an amazing job removing rain and resharpening. Finally, added the plug-in Film Convert which can color footage to match different film stocks, my specs below.

I got a chance to use the new Kamerar slider I reviewed last week and noticed some new things.   It bows pretty far on each ends with a full load and the ball head is definitely rubbish.  But besides some small things that can be worked around it held up pretty well and is defiantly work a $100 investment!

Interview scene set-up
Sorry for the horrible quality.