Road Trip Documentary

I've been shooting since this summer on about 25 random dates for a documentary which I have been extremely privileged to be apart of. I wish I could share a few more details about this project (and eventually I will), but the entire process has made me very interested in exploring additional documentary work.

It's a unique opportunity to be injected into someone's life to observe all the fascinating details they may consider mundane. The fringe benefit has to be the new relationships that occur as a result.

Everything should be winding down for me around the first week of June, but I will be excited to follow the project as it starts to be assembled.

Stand Up 4 Marriage

When Jason, who I've worked with previously on a couple theater projects, called me about running a camera for a local live stage event, I was more then happy to be shooting camera only a few minutes from my home.

"Stand Up 4 Marriage" was billed as a comedy event for couples featuring Yakov Smirnoff, John Gray, Chonda Pierce, and Mark Gungor.

In addition to putting some great shots up on the jumbo screen and for the live event I also got some great MacGyver moments troubleshooting video signals and building last minute audio cables.

They say the show must go on, and tonight in front of a packed house, it did.

Bubble Gum Baby

Friend, film school graduate, and former live sound man Sid McGregor gave me a call about DP'ing a music video he was getting ready to direct for bluegrass band The Chapmans. The idea was to merge a turn of the century theater with a contrasting white studio space.

I've worked with Sid and The Chapmans before so I knew it would be a good time. I used matching dolly and jib moves in the two spaces to tie the studio elements together with historic theater. In the end, I am very happy with how the two scenes connect back in forth with each other.

Because we shot this locally I got to work with several friends that I normally only get to see socially.

Making of Winter's Bone

When I started working on 'Winter's Bone' I assumed my only role would be shooting still photography, but after the first week the producers approached me about also shooting some behind the scenes video of the production. During the reaming weeks of the schedule I alternated back and forth between shooting stills and video.

Chapmans Concert - New Brunswick, Canada

If you believe like I do that life is about the journey and not the destination, then traveling thirty hours each way in a tour bus to work two nights makes perfect sense. As a job, traveling with The Chapmans from Missouri up to New Brunswick, Canada really did not compute, but when I friend asked if I was interested in an adventure, the timing was right.

In addition to managing a five camera live concert shoot, I got the opportunity to explore a part of the world I had not visited, experience the "Woodchuck Man" of Bouctouche, and meet and stay with some of the most awesome Canadians around.

The long trip and the show are now behind me, but the memories and friendships I made in Canada should be around forever.