February’s RN: Real Nurses
I’m excited to share this video about UNC pediatric oncology nurse Jeanne Gartner. Nathan Clendenin and I traveled to Las Cruces, New Mexico to film her in January during the Mesilla Valley Hor Air Balloon Rally. This video is our second episode of the Real Nurses series. It was a wonderful trip. We had a blast filming. Have a look and leave some comments if you like it!
Real Doctors Real People – Sara Wobker
This week is exciting because I have several videos that I worked on that are going live. Today, UNC launched February’s Real Doctors, Real People video about pathologist Sara Wobker. Sara practices the equestrian sport of “dressage.” Nathan Clendenin and I were able to spend some time with her and her horse Brew recently and the video below is the result. Special thanks again to Ross Nelson of Brown Hound Music and Sound for the great music and audio mix.
Real Nurses launch!
This video is the first episode of the Real Nurses series, produced in collaboration with Nathan Clendenin. Special thanks to Ellen Ciompi for letting us film her!
We’re excited to see where this series takes us. Next month, look for a colorful new episode that’s sure to lift your spirits.
White Sands, New Mexico
Here’s some shots from a quick visit to White Sands, New Mexico. Nathan Clendenin and I were in the area to film the Mesilla Valley Balloon Rally this weekend. It was a beautiful day, and filming in a balloon is incredible. I head to Uganda on Tuesday so I hope to post some pictures from across the pond soon. Enjoy the shots!
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?
