Soccer Moments
Last night was nostalgic. The lights. The humidity. The long stretch of sideline: parents in lawn chairs on one end, sophomores grouped in a chanting cluster on the other far end, separated in the middle by the video dad and the announcer doing his best at providing play-by-play over a small sound system. The Thai ...
Senior Portraits 2010
That was the story, a uniquely formed identity, that I was trying to capture in a single image as I was preparing for a Senior picture shoot with 3 friends …
Mesidor’s Story: Production Notes from Haiti Assignment
The above piece was largely shot in two afternoons, and edited in one afternoon, during a recent trip to find personal stories of Haitians who were helping themselves in the aftermath of the Jan 12th earthquake that shook large swaths of Port-au-Prince and surrounding cities. By the time I got there, the press had made ...
5D Mark II Workflow, Part 1- Ingesting from Photo Mechanic
This is a tutorial I recorded quickly for some colleagues who all use Photo Mechanic, and would love feedback (it’s my first screencast). In this tutorial, you learn how to use Photo Mechanic to auto-sort your stills and video into separate folders during ingest, so you don’t have to manually find the .mov files or ...
Record of Relationships
In the last year or two of doing more web documentary work, my hunches have turned into convictions. One of them is that documentary films are a record of relationship: between myself and my subject.
II, Fadely, and next Gen
Multimedia is usually discussed in terms of presentation and delivery, but rarely do I hear real insight into the consumer’s POV, as was recently stated by Chuck Fadely in an interview on II’s website: Q) Where do you believe multimedia fits into today’s society and how will that role change over time? A) I was ...
What I’m Reading
I just received a few books in the mail: In The Blink Of An Eye by Walter Murch and On Directing Film by David Mamet. On Direction Film is a thin book, so I opened it up first. The author is a stage writer writing a book on his recent venture into film. Like myself ...
Afghan Hearts and Minds
I ran into this amazing video while surfing Vimeo’s 5D Mark II channel to see the different flavors of video people have been able to accomplish. Most of them are quirky short films, as can be expected when kids get new toys and tinker about, but when you get one in the hands of a ...
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More of Ira and TAL
This American Life continues to inspire me. It’s about average folks with average tastes, and telling stories “at human scale.” Listen to this great talk from Ira from back in 2007 but just released via the Gel Conference website. I then realized Season Two of the television adaptation of This American Life is available for ...