Client: New York Magazine’s Daily Intel, Tumblr Storyboard
Role: Producer, Camera, Editor
Run Time: 3:51

Client: Tumblr Storyboard
Role: Camera, Editor
Run Time: 4:26

Client: The Daily Beast
Role: Producer, Camera, Editor
Run Time: 2:30

I shot the New York portion (screengrab below) and edited the videos based on all-around-good-guy producer Brian Ives’ direction. CBS.com ended up picking up the series and promoting, a big honor! One of my favorite videos:

Client: CBS Local
Role: New York Director of Photography, Editor
Run Time: 5:05

Here’s the look I created for the NY interviews:

The Newsweek multimedia team was nominated for two GLAAD awards in 2011; one was for my 2010 video “Kicked Out But Ready to Go Back”. That piece looked at a soldier who had been expelled from the military under Don’t Ask Don’t Tell but was eagerly trying to get back into service any way she could but doubtful of a DADT repeal. This was one of the last pieces I shot using a conventional video camera (and honestly, the piece that made me make the jump to DSLRs. I look at it and think “If only I had shot that on DSLR!”). It was also one of the few pieces in which I used my own voiceover. I prefer to use other people’s VO, if only because I can better judge the good takes.

Client: Newsweek
Role: Producer, Camera, Editor
Run Time: 6:51

I was honored to receive a News and Documentary Emmy nomination in 2007. It was Newsweek’s first, and the first of any U.S. magazine.

For the fifth anniversary of the Iraq war, the Newsweek editors did a big cover story about the conflict as told through the letters and words of its heroic dead. I spent a day filming a family in Kentucky who had just lost their father to an IED the previous month. As you can imagine, the family’s emotions were raw, the grief palpable, the hurt and loss etched on the children’s faces. But the mom wanted to make sure their father’s story was told–I think so the father would always be remembered as a hero.

It was also the first project I traveled for while at Newsweek, and one of my first videos ever. I shot, produced and edited the video over a couple days, and composed my own music as well on Garage Band, back before the company paid for music rights. True one-man band production!

While parts of the production are a bit dated now (I would say my camera work and editing have improved), this was one of the most rewarding projects that I worked on while at Newsweek as a video journalist. In addition to the Emmy nomination, the series was awarded an MPA Digital Award for Best Online Video Series 2007, a MIN Best of the Web award for Integration with Print 2008, a 2007 Deadline Club Award from the NYC chapter of the Society of Professional Journalists, and a NY Press Club Award for Exclusive Online Content.

Client: Newsweek
Role: Producer, Camera, Editor
Run Time: 7:24

Client: Men’s Health
Role: Camera, Editor
Run Time: 2:12

Client: Tumblr Storyboard
Role: Camera, Editor
Run Time: 2:47

For the most recent round, we did three how-to videos as related to summer music festival style as well as one designer profile:
Client: CBS Local
Role: Director of Photography, Editor
Run Time: 3:34

For the first round we took a look at red-carpet style through panel discussions of Grammy fashion as well as three how-to videos. I like the camera work on this video best:
Client: CBS Local
Role: Director of Photography, Editor
Run Time: 4:20

Client: New York Magazine’s The Cut
Role: Camera

Here are a few screen shots from the footage (links are above):

From Marchesa: