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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
American Mothers – Mothers of the Year, 2013
“So we need to shoot a few interviews and have them turned around within about 15 hours.” “Shouldn’t be a problem. How many?” “42.” Normally the kind of job proposal that sends one screaming. The occasion was the American Mothers’ annual Mothers of the Year banquet at New York City’s Ritz-Carlton. These videos were to […]
Johns Hopkins University Center for Biotechnology Education – MOOC
Here’s an introduction video for a Massively Open Online Course (MOOC in the vernacular) on bioinformatics we produced for Johns Hopkins University’s Center for Biotechnology Education. Many MOOC intros tend to be a single static shot of a course instructor boring you to death, but JHU elected for something different. Gathering several experts in the field, […]