The "Lip Sync Challenge" has taken social media by storm, featuring law enforcement offices around the country lip syncing to a popular song, often with a choreographed dance moves and thematic plots.
Several jurisdictions in North Georgia participated in the challenge, including the Hall County Sheriff's Office.
The department worked with local film maker Stephen Dean to create a video featuring a donut heist at the popular Danny's Donuts and the aftermath of the arrest to Flo Rida's "My House."
"I was fortunate enough to be able to help them out with that and I was contacted by someone I knew in the county court services division and asked if I would like to help them create a lip sync challenge video and of course my answer was absolutely yes," said Dean. "Having been former law enforcement myself it was hard to pass up that opportunity."
Dean said he couldn't take full credit for the plot, saying it was a collaboration between the court services, deputies and himself. That led them to reaching out to Danny's Donuts and Dean said he thought of the helicopter chase.
The video continues in a court room, including an ejection, and a choreographed dance down a hallway, complete with bold colored effects.
"Obviously I hope it communicates to everybody, through the use of color - which of course some people were a fan of, some people got it, there's a few that obviously didn't - but it was supposed to be fun and make people feel good, I think we primarily accomplished that," said Dean. "And also, when you're dealing with backgrounds that are more uniformly muted, it's nice to add some colors there to bust it up so you're not just dealing with beiges and yellows, so that's where those transitions came in."
Dean said the video didn't come without some minor challenges, specifically wardrobe.
"They ended up being really great, natural actors and to have to do some of the movements they do, I know from previous experience, with a ballistic vest and a gun on their belt, I thought they did awesome. It's really hard to move around in that stuff like they did and they made it look easy."
Three production days and four editing days went in to making the video a reality. "What we released was roughly the third edit after the initial one," Dean said. He added it took about three weeks to make in full.
The video is available on YouTube. You can check out more of Dean's work here.
