Five Star is the established leader for fabricating car bodies, windows, and parts for NASCAR and the racing industry. Five Star is expanding into new markets by leveraging their expertise in the demanding racecar business. To help communicate this message, they hired Richter Studios to produce a video series for an upcoming trade show. The production team at Richter combined Red, 5D, and GoPro cameras for diverse and beautiful cinematography. I was brought on to edit a style that was edgy, energetic, and captured the excitement of racing.
In September 2011, I began teaching as an adjunct instructor in the Broadcast department at Tribeca Flashpoint Academy. Students participate in an intensive, two-year associates degree program that incorporates field production, studio production, and video editing. The program is hands-on, with students operating camera, lights, editing software, and dealing with production planning from the very start of the semester. I presently teach a TV studio production class and an Avid postproduction class. All of the faculty are experienced professionals, and many are adjuncts who are presently working in the industry. After having taught elsewhere, and from my own college experience, I think Flashpoint offers a truly wonderful program. Students aren’t learning from academics, but from professionals who know what it takes to survive. The facilities are top notch, and expectations are very high.
For their final TV studio projects, the students produce a fifteen minute show that includes an interview, a how-to segment, and a musical performance. All material is shot by the students in a mutlicamera studio environment, with live switching and no post work. Students are responsible for coming up with a show theme, finding guests, developing the concept, and creating all graphics. Below are a couple of final projects from last semester. Remember, these students had absolutely no production experience whatsoever before the semester began. I am very proud of their work!
The Goethe Institut is the international German language and cultural outreach organization. In Chicago, they provide German language courses, programs for high school students, artist talks, literature translations, and inter-culural training for companies doing business in Germany. This video was filmed and produced by Backstar Creative Media, and I worked with the client to edit together the video.
This video was produced and filmed by Nic and Dan at Bitter Jester Creative for Campus Special, a marketing company that specializes in print and electronic coupons on college campuses. Every summer, the company hires student sales interns who canvas their local businesses to build their school coupon books. Each student is supported by a mentor to guide them through being a successful salesperson. Before beginning their internship, the students attend a training seminar, which is what was filmed for this video. Students who completed the program return as mentors for the incoming recruits. The video serves two purposes—to recruit students as new interns, and to attract investors. I edited the video, selected music, and created the graphics.
OMED is an annual conference for osteopathic physicians. In 2011, the conference was held in Orlando. Videos were shot by Patrick Sinco from The DO internet trade magazine. Raw footage was sent from the cameraman in Florida to me in Chicago via the internet, and uploaded/posted overnight. Truly the beginning of the “cloud” remote editing workflow. These “Man on the Street” style interviews capture the opinions of conference goes towards hot topics in the osteopathic field.
One State Together in the Arts is a the annual conference that brings together individuals and organizations across the arts and across Illinois to discuss issues and build new collaborative connections. This year’s conference was held May 23-24th in Bloomington Illinois. I was hired by Intention Design to assemble the conference videos, and cut together the following “man on the street” interview segment of what attendees got out of the conference:
CANTV is Chicago’s community cable access station, where city residents can produce their own TV shows. Between September 2010 and April 2011, I taught courses in video editing, visual storytelling / theory, camera, lighting, and studio production. Of these courses, the most rewarding, and the most challenging class to teach was studio production. Over the course of 4 intensive full-day weekend sessions, students learn all aspects of production, both technical and aesthetic, from pre-production, to lighting, sound, and camera, to control room operation including the switcher, sound board, CG keyer, and teleprompter. Most of the students are adults, many from mission based community groups, and represent a very diverse cross-section of Chicago’s socio-economic spectrum. Some are very technically savy, and some have never used a computer before.
May 5th, 2011 was the grand opening of the new Museum of Private Art Collections Salvador Dali and Matt Lamb at the River East Arts Center in Chicago. As part of the grand opening celebration, donors and dignitaries from around the world traveled to Chicago to partake in events and tours related to Matt Lamb’s work. This is the first video in a series of daily video logs, documenting each day’s events. The videos were produced by Frey Design Productions, under whom I worked on location, data wrangling and cutting the following video:
