DIRECTOR'S STATEMENT

We will be shooting the b-roll component to a green screen / talk driven piece about a drug (Focalin) that helps kids with ADHD. We'll be shooting the day in the life of a 10 - 12 year old boy who struggles with ADHD. Then, when he takes Focalin, he feels better and can stay on top of what he needs to do. 

We have one day to shoot and we have two locations... well two and one half. A home and a school. The half location is a school bus stop that we are looking to keep very close to the house or possibly the school. 

The number of locations, the number of shots we need to capture, and the limitation of a single 10 hour day will require us to work very quickly with minimal set up time. 

Here's how I am planning on making our day while making this video look great.

Beautiful locations with plenty of natural light. 

I want to find a house and school that has a plenty of natural, beautiful light. We'll be shooting with the very fast digi-primes so we'll have plenty of stop. I am also looking for locations that are plug and play. The house needs to have a kids room and looks good without any help from the art department (we don't have an art department). The school will need to be dressed or at least look somewhat like a school with a chalk board and some desks and plenty of natural light. A playground outside would be nice. 

My dream location for the home.

Steadicam

A steadicam will allow us to move quickly while capturing a bunch of dynamic shots. I will set up, for example, a homework scene. We'll get a bunch of coverage of this scene from different angles, tracking, overhead shot. Switch lenses and do it again. 

Minimal Lighting

We are simply not going to have time to light this show in a big way. I just happened to watch a "making of" doc for the Terrence Malick's  The New World. Malick shot all of the "new world" shots MOL (mit out lights). They relied only on the sun and fire. It looks great and its good to merely inspire what is possible. We do have a night scene at the end of the day, and we can't rely on fire for that so we will use a practical and possibly a china ball but it has to stay very simple. For the day work, if its cloudy, or we have indirect sun light, I might want to throw a source 4 to get some modeling on our subjects' face. I am seeing this as with equipment out of a van or possibly station wagon or SUV rather than a truck. Here's The New World trailer.