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RE: Authoritarian Sociopathy: Toward a Renegade Psychological Experiment, Part 6
For the fight, they could choreograph it and record it in a green room for rigging to 3D models, that way they can eliminate the cost of actors and takes, and the slight disparage in different takes, especially for three different costumes, which wouldn't go away, plus no need to find a location, just place the scene of the security camera as the background to the 3d animation, giving the animation plenty of grainy low resolution treatment.
That way the cost of filming for different ethnicity or gender, would be mitigated and used to research those variables.
Good CGI is not cheap, and the continuity between the hall and the video is key. But if you can make it work anyway, go for it!
On that line of thought, though, a low-res video feed and motion-capture stuntmen could allow costume changes in post-production with high-quality CGI. And if the main video capture camera were located properly, it could be used to match whatever background image the hall at any given location offered per your bluescreen/greenscreen suggestion. After all, if the camera at each location were 8 feet above the floor and 2 feet from the corner in every location used for the study, it might work.
If the hallway is built and the camera is pointed to a certain standard it would work. CGI isn't cheap but it's cheaper than Actors and sets. One recording of the fight scene is needed and that's only for inverse kinematics. 100 thousand for 100 people is a lot I think, and the more data sets the richer the detail we can glean.
The $100K is just an estimate, remember, and also covers renting a public space, construction, equipment, and other costs regardless of how the scene is staged. However, also remember that this is an open-source concept so it's wide open to anyone to reinterpret and run.