America’s Consequence: The Game Show

Project Reel:

This reel includes the work of various artists.

pictured below – various photos from the production where I am supervising visual effects shots.

“America’s Consequence: The Game Show” is a short film directed by Hannah Setzler and produced by Amelia Prouse. The story explores various political themes and is centered around a wacky game show.

I first heard of the project through Sean Hussey at the SCAD Production Office where we both worked. Hannah had reached out to Sean about needing a VFX Supervisor for her project, so Sean reached out to me and I thought the project was interesting enough to hop on board.

After the storyboards were completed I planned for about 30 VFX shots. The shots were all medium complexity, mostly keying, roto, and a lot of screen placement. I wrangled 4 additional artists to help with creating the visual effects for this project.

*pictured above – production sheet I created to keep us organized and on track.*

We opted to use After Effects instead of Nuke for this project as we felt some of the tools included inside After Effects were better suited for creating CRT screen-placements.

After all the visual effects shots were completed, I had all the artists deliver their AE project folders so I could do any extra refinements and make sure the visual effects were properly exported for the colorist who preferred to work in ACES.