For Mental Health Awareness Week 2017, we went about creating a video to support the occasion. We find that one of the main issues with mental health is how undetectable it can be.

A message from us at Bubble Light Productions to highlight Mental Health Awareness Week 2017. Look after your mind. Mental Health Awareness Week 2017 takes place from the 8th-14th of May across the UK.

Director/Camera/Editor – Seb Cox
Camera Assistant – Sulekha Kaur Takhtar
Runner – Olivia Symonds

Music: Kai Engel – Harbor

The visual approach was designed not to pity those struggling with mental health, but to observe the similarities and blending them into the everyday. To express this, the video was created using the style of street videography to get a realistic day-to-day life of students on campus, using a zoom lens to be nonintrusive. This detached documentary was used to demonstrate the realism of the problem. People will go about their days without others being aware of their internal battles.

In post-production, the shots were graded in Davinci Resolve and drawn over in stop motion using Photoshop to make the subject’s head a scribble.

We even made a tutorial for you to create a similar effect on your own portraits.

Here is a tutorial on how to do the Mental Health Awareness Week 2017 profile pictures that you may have been seeing around Facebook :) I show you how to make them in Adobe Photoshop and GIMP (a free equivalent of Photoshop) You can download GIMP for free here: https://www.gimp.org/ The GIMP part of the tutorial starts at 7 minutes and 40 seconds in.

We hope you liked ‘Mental Health Transparency’, please share it around to help support mental health.