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Against The Grain: Making Cereal Ads For Generation Y

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  • Find a location – before you start shooting, find your location or set up the scene.

  • Set up the scene – set up the table around 10-15 feet from the backdrop so the background is out of focus. We add a piece of a wooden table, but you can get any piece of wood you have around or opt for a different look.

  • Camera placement – place the camera onto a tripod, almost level to the board (at eye-level). We shot with a 50mm lens on a  black magic 4k. They suggest shooting at 60fps so you can add some slo-mo. Also, use lower ISO (800 or lower) to get less noise.

  • Backdrop light – add a hard light to the background for some texture (keep in mind though that it won’t work if you use a printed backdrop). Point the light to the background from below and make it right behind your bottle.

  • Overhead light – add a soft overhead light to the scene and move it a bit to the side of your subject. This way, it won’t create a huge reflection on the front of the bottle. We placed it at 45 degrees on the back.

  • Main light – you’ll need another soft light, on the opposite side of the bottle. In this case, it’s 45 degrees on the front, pointed at the label. A larger the light source, the more natural look. You’ll get and a pleasant reflection that makes the bottle look more appealing. If you don’t have multiple lights, you can always improvise with some construction lights and DIY diffusion panels. Perhaps a V-flat would also do the trick.

  • Visual interest – add some practical lights in the background to add mood to your shot. We used string lights, something like this.

  • Practical interest – your background is now well-lit, and so is the bottle, but you wanna make it “pop.” Cut a piece of diffusion shaped as the bottle and stick it on the back side so the bottle isn’t transparent any more. It will make a lot of difference.

  • Make it cold – I don’t know anyone who likes drinking warm beer. So, you want to make it cold, or even better – look cold. Use a mixture of glycerin and water, add it to a spray bottle and spray it on your bottle of beer. This mixture will stay there, it won’t melt away and make the label wet, so you can finish the shoot with the bottle still looking nice and cold.

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Against The Grain: Making Cereal Ads For Generation Y

Like many of my contemporary college students I am a very big fan of breakfast cereals.  In fact—to us—it is not just breakfast cereal, but lunch cereal, dinner cereal, and late-night-snack cereal.  And despite our parents telling us to act our age we still have a place in our hearts, and our bowls, for children’s cereals. So when I recently saw Froot Loop’s “Bring Back the Awesome” advert I got that glittery feeling that one gets with a good ad, the feeling that says, “They’re talking to me.”

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BEER COMMERCIAL SHOOT black magic 4k

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  • Find a location – before you start shooting, find your location or set up the scene.

  • Set up the scene – set up the table around 10-15 feet from the backdrop so the background is out of focus. We add a piece of a wooden table, but you can get any piece of wood you have around or opt for a different look.

  • Camera placement – place the camera onto a tripod, almost level to the board (at eye-level). We shot with a 50mm lens on a  black magic 4k. They suggest shooting at 60fps so you can add some slo-mo. Also, use lower ISO (800 or lower) to get less noise.

  • Backdrop light – add a hard light to the background for some texture (keep in mind though that it won’t work if you use a printed backdrop). Point the light to the background from below and make it right behind your bottle.

  • Overhead light – add a soft overhead light to the scene and move it a bit to the side of your subject. This way, it won’t create a huge reflection on the front of the bottle. We placed it at 45 degrees on the back.

  • Main light – you’ll need another soft light, on the opposite side of the bottle. In this case, it’s 45 degrees on the front, pointed at the label. A larger the light source, the more natural look. You’ll get and a pleasant reflection that makes the bottle look more appealing. If you don’t have multiple lights, you can always improvise with some construction lights and DIY diffusion panels. Perhaps a V-flat would also do the trick.

  • Visual interest – add some practical lights in the background to add mood to your shot. We used string lights, something like this.

  • Practical interest – your background is now well-lit, and so is the bottle, but you wanna make it “pop.” Cut a piece of diffusion shaped as the bottle and stick it on the back side so the bottle isn’t transparent any more. It will make a lot of difference.

  • Make it cold – I don’t know anyone who likes drinking warm beer. So, you want to make it cold, or even better – look cold. Use a mixture of glycerin and water, add it to a spray bottle and spray it on your bottle of beer. This mixture will stay there, it won’t melt away and make the label wet, so you can finish the shoot with the bottle still looking nice and cold.

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