I was hired as DP on this job, produced by Bill Parker of Hindsight Media. We made a 10-minute video for URWA (the Upper Raritan Watershed Association) and this is a 90 second “teaser” that we cut for them. URWA’s mission is to ensure the protection of the natural resources of Read more…
Last fall, I shot a video for URWA, an organization that works to protect and preserve the Upper Raritan Watershed in New Jersey. I was hired by my friend Bill Parker (of Hindsight Media) to DP the project. We went down to NJ on two trips for 2-3 days a piece, shooting interviews and beauty shots of the area. (I was, in fact, blown away by how stunning this area was. Being from Boston, I thought that NJ was basically a big strip mall or gross industrial plant.) This was the kind of job that did not really feel like work; walking around with my camera in late summer/mid-fall getting beauty shots of landscapes, rivers, animals, etc. It felt more like a vacation (I guess I shouldn’t let the client hear that). Read more…
As I mentioned in the previous blog post, I did an interesting job last week with Charlie Burnham. While the content itself was not extremely compelling (it was a video to educate participants and practitioners in a medical research study on the effects of placebo), I enjoy working with Charlie, who always put’s an emphasis on high production values for his clients. I was brought on to shoot second camera and be on-set EX-1 guru, for the DP, Regis Becker, who Charlie has worked with on these jobs for years. I actually really enjoy working with people like Regis who have been in the business for at least a couple decades, as there is always something for me to learn. Read more…