A White House Interview for Daily Wire
In late March, I served as Director of Photography with Daily Wire and Abbson to light and shoot an interview with Vice President Mike Pence and Dr. Deborah Birx for Ben Shapiro’s Sunday Special. Ultra-high-profile, rapid-setup, can’t-fail stakes, all with a heavy mixture of carefully almost-aseptic gear handling and social distancing. Hopefully years of experience […]
Foundation Medicine and AstraZeneca: Production for VisMedia UK
Honestly, not a month goes by when I’m not shooting something related to healthcare… and I love it. I worked four years in cancer research. While I was a horrible, horrible scientist, my appreciation for advancements in the field far exceeds my appreciation for, say, zombies or music videos. As part of our ongoing work […]
AARP In Your Community: Sourcing Teamwork in the Mid-Atlantic
In the summer of 2017, McBob Productions worked with AARP to source a two-man crew (video and audio) for three separate shoots on AARP Community events in Virginia, DC, and North Carolina. Working as camera and field producer for all three events, I dug into my bag of professional connections to quickly source three expert […]
21CSK: Lives cut short
FirstLook TV out of the United Kingdom contacted us in early 2018. As part of their upcoming series, we assisted them in producing the Virginia portion of their episode on “Back to School Killer” Jesse Matthews. Thankfully, I didn’t have to spend any personal time ruminating on Jesse Matthews. Instead, FirstLook’s treatment relied heavily upon […]
SmallRigging the FS5: The Balance of Size and Utility
NOTE: I’ve updated this post to reflect developments which preclude me from recommending SmallRig parts to anyone. Several of the elements have failed prematurely with no satisfaction from the company, leading me to revise this post and remove any links to their products. With any Chinese company, quality and customer service is an afterthought. Buy […]
KDIGO: Mobile multicam studio production on a budget
In early July 2017, we worked with repeat client eFly Productions on another medically-themed, conference-associated production. Our task: to stage and produce a talk-show style discussion of a new guideline published by KDIGO, a global kidney disease nonprofit organization. The limitations: the production was in Denver vs. McBob’s usual Mid-Atlantic market, so production gear would […]
Highland County: A Documentary In Progress
A couple years ago on a chance meeting, I finally became involved in creating a feature-length documentary. Someday, I may even finish it. I’ll be updating this post as the project develops. In the meantime, here’s the section concentrating on the main subject of the tale, logger Albert Schulz. Includes voluminous archival footage and photography […]
A Book Preview with Sherilyn Kenyon – Camera work for Spear & Magic Productions
In the spring of 2017, we met Spear & Magic Productions in Williamsburg to shoot a unique book preview with author Sherilyn Kenyon for Tor Publishing. The location provided an ideal backdrop for our camera work, and Spear & Magic crafted the voluminous material into a compelling preview. Handheld run & gun with the Sony […]
Crowdfunding with Re-Nuble: Camera Work for Truxton Creative
During one of the coldest days in 2016, we drove up just outside of Berkeley Spring, WV to spend a day finding out about Re-Nuble, a food waste-derived hydroponic nutrient blend. The company was seeking funding to expand, and had asked Truxton Creative to craft a message. Truxton utilized documentary techniques with McBob Productions behind […]
A More Secure VCU with SyCom – Camera work for Webstorytellers
Our first project with Webstorytellers took us to the VCU Police Department, where Cisco partner SyCom had recently undertaken a campus-wide upgrade of the security camera system with extremely positive results. Duties again fell on the simple doc package of AF100 and Sigma zooms, and extremely fluid interview settings… effectively all in one room as […]