NDFD 2013 Submissions Video

I edited the videos and created the animations.

January 30th was National Drug Facts Day 2013. In partnership with National Institute on Drug Abuse, Mentor Foundation USA held a big event at the House of Sweden. About 160 high schoolers from the DC area attended for a day of presentations and workshops. 

One of the workshops was a panel where students asked scientists and an interventionist questions about drugs. Mentor asked students from around the world to submit a question about drug use. We played this video at the beginning to help the kids in the audience get their questions rolling. The video was interactive of sorts. A video would play and then we paused it while the panel answered the question. Then on to the next question and so on. When ever you see a stop sign in the lower right corner, it meant a two-second window to pause the video.

I did not shoot these videos. I edited the videos in Premiere and created the animations in After Effects. I've been surprised by how quickly I've been adapting to After Effects. I always thought it was a scary software monster, but I'm finding my past experience with Flash is making the learning curve less steep. Though I have a ways to go before I get to be a sensei.