It’s been all quiet on the blogging front the last few months. It’s not a big deal really, and I’m sure my loyal readers (hi, Mom!) have gotten over it. But I just feel annoyed when I look at my site and see that I’ve posted nothing in the last few months. When I started this site I had grand visions of, at the very least, weekly posts about what I was doing, what gear I was working with, and other narcissistic subjects. But that never happened. When I sit down to write something, it is very trying for my words to hit the page, and I just sort of think “why does anyone care” (and this is EXACTLY what I am thinking RIGHT NOW). Read more…
Posts Tagged ‘corporate video’
The Power of Words
I feel like a lot of my blog posts recently (as well as many on other people’s blogs that I read) have been very gear oriented. That’s not bad; I like to read about new gear, but I think all this talk about gear gets us further away from discussing and sharing WHAT we are doing. Because ultimately it doesn’t matter what we’re using, right? (I only sort of agree with that last statement, but let’s just leave it at that.) Anyway, I’ve also realized that I’ve done very little posting of what I’ve been working on this year, so I’d like to change that. I’ve been fortunate to have had a pretty busy year. I just wrapped up what was my biggest job to date for a company in Boston, but it will probably be a few months before I am allowed to post the final video. But I thought I’d share a short piece I just finished this week for, Rosie’s Place, a shelter for poor and homeless women in Boston. Read more…
URWA Trailer
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…
New Jersey IS Beautiful!
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…
Two Cameras, Tiny Room
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…