Peer Pressure PSA

Peer Pressure

For our PSA we decided to choose peer pressure as our topic. It is a topic that most people can relate to. We took inspiration from one of the example videos of having different situations throughout the video. To make it more interesting we wanted to shoot it in first person perspective so the camera was the person who was being peer pressured. All of the actors had to look into the camera like it was the person. The whole video was going to be pretty much one shot for each scene. The scenarios we chose were some of the most common situations someone would be pressured in. We shot most of our scenes at school during the day because most of these situations were related to high school or young adult issues. The only scene we had to film outside of school was the drunk driving scene because most times it occurs at night. 
As the cinematographer I decided not to use a tripod to make the shots less formal. I still tried to keep the shots relatively steady but not having a tripod gave me more freedom in the shots. We used the Canon 60D camera with the basic lens. I would have preferred to use a lens with a better field of depth to blur the background more, but the 50mm lens would have made the shots to tight. As a group we should have come up with more scenarios and tweaked the dialogue. For example, the bathroom scene where I made fun of Amy's outfit wan't really a peer pressure scenario, it was more of me being mean. My outfit also did not make my role look convincing considering I was just wearing an oversized shirt. I would still use the same method of filming of not using a tripod because it gave the feeling of being the person talked to. As a team we tried to include everyone, but not everyone tried to be involved. And I'll leave it at that. 

Production Schedule

DateSceneLocationCastItems needed
August 25DrinkingArea of RefugeGreysonPlastic cup
DrugsBrick wall outsideWes
SexLockersAmy
August 28Skip SchoolArea of RefugeEvaniPhone
Outfit shameGirls BathroomNatalieUgly outfit
August 29 at nightDrunk DrivingNight by a carAlexCar keys

Production Roles

DirectorAmy
Production DesignerThomas
CinematographerNatalie
EditorEvan
ActorWes
Continuity DirectorBrendan

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