OtterBox Phantom

Client: OtterBox
Project: Product demo videos
Involvement: Concept development, creative direction, videography, color grading, equipment operation

I recommend viewing these in 1080p in fullscreen mode!

This series of videos shot for OtterBox were designed to give the consumer an everyday look at how that product can protect their phone. The scenes were concepted by me and others on the OtterBox creative staff. We used real customer testimonials as the basis for scene, which run at the beginning of each clip. I chose to rent the Phantom v640 high speed camera which allows recording full 1080p at 2,700 fps. I operated the camera and directed the photography/videography of each scene and location. The massive amount of footage shot resulted in almost 1 terabyte of raw files. The Video Producer at OtterBox then worked to cut and splice all the clips together with my direction. I then took over the files in Final Cut Pro, exported them to Apple Color and did all the color grading and output new files. We did a final tune of the cuts, added the intro and outro and later added music. All of the filming was completed in 5 days, with production taking another week. The videos initially ran on 60″ monitors at OtterBox’s two tradeshow booths at the mammoth Consumer Electronics Show (CES). They were later added to YouTube and will be shown nationwide in carrier and indirect stores, presentations, etc. The video currently have well over 600,000 views collectively on YouTube.