Some of the more interesting and fun videos that I get to work on may not necessarily be the larger setups with all the latest equipment and this is one of them. This 30 second clip is supposed to take the style of a flip book where we show tools that kids are exposed to and what career direction they grow up taking.
Film look without the complexities
There is so much talk about getting the film look and this video was a chance to shoot as if it was film. With a Nikon DSLR and a bunch of studio strobes, we got shallow depth of field, higher dynamic range, ability to use 35mm lenses and ability to light the location like a film set without the need for the usual 20 person circus.
Other considerations
As the children were not used to acting this allows them to just pose of picture and that got around the whole needing to act issue. Things moved along faster as each shot can be done quite quickly compared to a take in a video or film shoot.
The End Result
Although in the end the pictures did not flip through as quickly as I wanted, I am sure you can imagine how it would look if it did. Each shot has camera moves such as dolly and pans planned when we were taking the series of photos.
Links
Here is a good implementation of the flip book idea that is similar to what I had intended it to look like.
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