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 […]
Presidio and Valley Proteins – A Corporate Tale with Webstorytellers
Over the past several years, we’ve been working with Webstorytellers, a San Diego-based production company with an emphasis on IT, with major clientele throughout the country. Documentation of this corporate tale began at the head offices of a major rendering operation in the Shenandoah Valley. Tools used were the Panasonic AF100 and GH4 cameras with […]
Tyton BioEnergy – Fuel from Tobacco
Epidemic.Media contacted us in the late summer of 2015 to help them promote a fascinating new venture: to convert acres of productive southern tobacco fields into a rich, viable source of biofuels. We spent the day documenting some of this work undertaken by Tyton BioEnergy with a simple doc single-camera package, from growing to processing […]
AstraZeneca – Cardiometabolic Therapies at UVA
Among our many clients in the scientific and medical fields, AstraZeneca contacted us in 2016 to document their ongoing partnerships with research institutions in the United States… in this case, in our own backyard of Charlottesville, VA. This was a standard two-camera production with interviews and B-roll, field-produced and shot by us and later assembled […]
All about the Z5P with Zenith Firearms
In August of 2015, we worked with Zenith Firearms of Afton, VA to create a pair of armorer videos to thoroughly explain the care and maintenance of their newest roller-lock firearms, the Z5 and Z43. With budget in mind, both were fairly straight-forward two-camera/single operator productions with simple set designs and edits. With nearly 10 […]