Little Outdoor Giants | Directors & Photographers
Little Outdoor Giants is Dom Casserly & Jarrod McCabe. We’re photographers, directors, creators, collaborators - we do pretty much everything involved to create cool stuff. We approach each project as unique - because we believe they all are. We adapt our roles for every shoot to make the best work possible. We both have the exact same skill set and use all of them on set as needed.
For Embark’s Fall Social content we’d create a library of stills and motion pieces (gifs, boomerangs, cinemagraphs, short motion) with a nimble crew and a light footprint on small sized productions. We see this production as bringing together our aesthetic of natural looking light, capturing authentic and relatable moments, and using humor and the unique creative ideas brought by the team at Mechanica to bring this project to life as a beautiful, approachable, and humor-filled series of real-life moments for all dog enthusiasts and owners to immediately relate to.
Social Content Library Stills & Motion Production
Shoot Day 01 (House 01 & Farm/Orchard): Monday October 07th
We see this day as a split in two locations. In the AM we shoot at a Mechanica secured home location. Shots #01 - #04 + #11 (Dog Portraits on Seamless) are all done in the first half of the day using Mechanica sourced dogs, location, and propping. LOG creates a location studio to shoot clean portraits of Mechanica dogs for use in Shot #11 (framed portraits).
The second half of the day we travel to a local farm/orchard where we can shoot fall festive shots #05 & #06 and plenty of variation. For shot #05 we see many variations from apple picking with dogs, playing in leaves, pumpkin carving with dogs and possibly even matching outfits, think dog and owner in red-flannel shirts wandering through a festive fall wonderland of apples and cider donuts and pumpkin spice everything, oh my!
This day is done with heavy help from Mechanica on the production, helping to source locations, dogs, and props.
Shoot Day 02 (House 02, Prop Day): Wednesday October 16th
This being our heavy prop day, we propose lumping all shots involving heavy propping and multiple rooms in a home to a single shoot day. We can bring in great production support here where we need it most and fully utilize that resource to maximize production value in our imagery and motion content.
We can accomplish realistically about 10 shots in one location in one day, depending on final creative and needs. We have proposed 14 shots here, shots #07, #08, #11, #12, #14-#21, #24, #25 all happening here. We’d like to talk and discuss what shots should be prioritized, get a stylist/props stylist on board and start building this day out as it will involve the most heavy lifting. We propose this all happen at a single home location and be able to have a stylist/props team prep each next shot as we are shooting each prior shot, going from Thanksgiving to Holidays, to generic home moments in each of the scenarios and covering the wide range of scenes needed for the content library.
Shoot Day 03 (Downtown Newburyport & House 03): Wednesday October 23rd
Shoot day 03 we see as another two location day and going back to being nimble with Mechanica helping on production support. Shooting in Downtown Newburyport with Mechanica talent and dogs as well as another (or same) Mechanica sourced home location, but focusing more on the outdoor yard scenes.
Shooting shots #13, #06, #23 in downtown Newburyport on the sidewalks and side streets out in the world. We’ll be able to fill out our social content with not just scenes indoors and in homes, but out in the real world with all the texture and authentic feeling that will bring.
And the second half of the day we return to a home location to shoot shots #09, #10, #22 using the front of the home, yard and sidewalk/driveway. Additionally, any spillover home shots that may need extra help from our previous shoot days can be accommodated here as well.
Little Outdoor Giants Motion & Imagery
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Cheers- Giants