I received a call from the Animal Farm team asking me if I was interested in working with them on a documentary style project for Cisco. Naturally I said yes... and over the next several months and many pre-production meetings we landed on a visual direction for the project and started planning for the shoot days in San Jose at the Cisco headquarters.
Some interview and b-roll footage from the production, no audio.
I knew that the story was going to focus on cyber security so I utilized a lot of quadrant framing and shot the interviews using an Eye-Direct during the production. My role was to direct the on set production and work as director of photography. We worked with a great crew in San Jose, California and Raleigh, North Carolina - the crew mentioned to me how helpful it was that I mocked up a lighting and camera diagram prior to production so everyone was on the same page.
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This production was so much fun to work on and you can read more about the project and see a short cut of film on Sans Serifs website.
A production of Sans Serif x Animal Farm