Shout-out to everyone on a healthy food kick. You’ve probably heard of MUSH, a small but mighty company that makes ready-to-eat oats that are available in nine different flavors.
Founded in 2015, the company sells in specialty food stores and once received a $300,000 investment from Mark Cuban on the TV show, “Shark Tank.”
Earlier this spring, we bought some MUSH to create a short video ad using our robotic camera. Here’s how we did it.
Composite Shots With A RED
Our studio director, Ari Morales, came up with the tagline: How do your oats stack up?
Using that phrase as the inspiration, we conceptualized a series of MUSH containers appearing one on top of the other. To resemble the company’s branding, we used a Coral seamless backdrop.
We attached a RED camera to our robotic camera and shot in 6K so that the resolution would enable us to edit the video in multiple aspect ratios (i.e. 9×16 or 16×9). The advantage of our robotic camera is that we can pre-program the camera movements to achieve repeatability. Each shot matched the others with a precision up to 1/1,000th of an inch. This allowed us to add as many layers as we wanted and then edit the footage to achieve the intended visual effect.
For lighting, we used a single source soft light, which is popular for these types of tabletop food and beverage videos.
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