On this project, I was approached to direct a video covering different mental health challenges Native Americans experience. The video needed to serve as both an educational tool and a PSA for Native Americans in need of mental health assistance. We were given a script, a short timeline, and a small budget to work with. We also had a team of about 3 people working on this including our producer, our motion graphics artist, and myself as director.
For many parts of the script we didn’t have access, or resources, to shoot the real thing, so we had to find other ways to illustrate the heavy topics we needed to show. With these limitations in place, Andrew Thompson, our motion graphics artist had an idea to merge motion graphics and live-action footage to create a double exposure style animation to tell the story. This gave us the ability to pair different Native American photos and iconography, along with some stock footage and custom stuff we shot, to tell the story we needed. This, paired with some traditional motion graphics, is the direction we decided to go with - and it produced a striking result that the client was very happy with. I served as director, storyboard artist, illustrator, and cinematographer on the project.
Contributions
Direction
Storyboards
Design
Cinematography
Storyboards
These were the storyboards used for production. As always with storyboards, there were some ideas that were sketched out initially, but were later changed to improve the final video.
