real doctors, real people is back!

I’m excited to share the January episode of real doctors, real people featuring Dr. Paul Godley.

The real doctors, real people series is produced for the UNC Medical Center News Office by Nathan Clendenin.

I’ve been collaborating with Nathan Clendenin as co-producer and editor for the series since 2011. I generally help Nathan shoot and conduct interviews and then we work together on the edit. This is the 15th episode! We shoot the series on Canon 5d Mark IIs.

This episode was fun because I got to try a motion tracking technique that you can do with Apple’s Motion program. You can see this technique in the section of the video when Dr. Godley is looking at the pictures on the back of his camera. I shot over his shoulder with a 50mm 1.4 lens with a wide-open aperture to really isolate the back of the camera. Then I used Motion to lock the images to the camera screen. It’s fun because it attaches points where you ask it to (in this case the edge of the camera LCD screen) and then tracks them for each “keyframe” of the shot. Then, it uses that info to track the edges of the overlaid photos, so it looks like the photos are moving along with the camera screen. It’s not perfect, but I think it works for this video. What do you think?

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