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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

CONTENT COPYRIGHT FLOCASTS – POSTED WITH PERMISSION FloWrestling hired McBob.TV to help produce the Virginia portion of this athlete promo for their Olympic-style wresting match slated in November 2014.  I met with UVA assistant wrestling coach and top-notch grappler Keith Gavin at UVA’s practice facilities, using a fairly bare-bones camera and lighting setup to showcase Gavin’s […]

Presented here a small selection of shot sequences from documentary and doc-style commercial projects over the past two years, scenes shot in the moment with no chance of retake. In these sequences, we attempt to evoke emotions and passions of the subjects in their space and situation. All camera work by Kevin McRoberts. All works […]

McBob.TV shoots interviews, lots of them, often with high profile personalities with a minimum of time, strict location requirements, minimal or solo crew, and very basic portable professional gear. This reel includes several representative samples of our work in both DP and solo operator capacities. In some samples from dual-system shoots (Rumsfeld, Chertoff), in-camera sync […]