Projects
UNC Kenan-Flagler Profiles
Success Story Videos completed production on a series of marketing videos for the University of North Carolina Kenan-Flagler Business School. In the final weeks of the Spring 2010 semester, we followed the activities of four second-year MBA students to reveal actual experiences at UNC-Chapel Hill. The marketing communications department at Kenan-Flagler elected to use the documentary style to create short profiles that appeal to prospective applicants to the program. The goal is to depict what sets UNC Kenan-Flagler apart. It was a pleasure to work with Chris Carmichael Multimedia on these productions.
Videographer, editor.
Explore the site. The four 2010 student profiles sit at the top of the page.
Awards:
2011 CASE Southeast District III Awards Program, Council for Advancement and Support of Education, Division/Category: IX. Audiovisual Communication, Films & Videotapes, Special Merit Award.
In 2008 visual communication students from the University of North Carolina School of Journalism and Mass Communication produced video profiles of faculty and alumni for UNC Kenan-Flagler Business School.
I visited Atlanta to contribute the video on Ian Czaja, MBA ’07, of the Boston Consulting Group.
Videographer, editor.
Ian’s story.
TimeSpace: Inauguration
WashingtonPost.com’s TimeSpace interactive map allows the user to experience the events of Inauguration Day through photos, video and text from specific locations through Washington, D.C., with customization of the news view by the hour.
One of 10 University of North Carolina photojournalism students invited to contribute content to this project on the historic day. We shot, edited and uploaded from the field.
Videographer, editor.
The Improvisers
Improvisation is not the domain of the genius or artists alone. We all improvise in social settings every day. Professional master’s degree thesis project for University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill featuring documentary video shorts, a gallery of interviews and producer’s notebook.
Photographer, videographer, writer, editor, site builder.
Awards:
Society for News Design Best of Multimedia Design, Quarterly Winner, 2010.
NPPA Multimedia Contest, Jan. 2010, 1st Place, Multimedia Project, and 1st Place, Individual Video, for Demystifying Improv.
Featured on KobreGuide to the Web’s Best Multimedia and Videojournalism, in arts, education, food and science channels, March 2, 2010.
Featured on Innovative Interactivity, Dec. 13, 2009.
News21: Powering A Nation
Twelve of the nation’s top journalism schools join in this unique program to experiment with forms of in-depth and investigative reporting. Students travel the country to report on critical issues facing our changing nation and then find innovative ways to tell those stories. The project is part of the Carnegie-Knight Initiative on the Future of Journalism Education’s News21 program. UNC-Chapel Hill was in its first of three years under this grant when I was selected for the summer 2009 fellowship.
Powering A Nation explores U.S. energy use and its relationship to the country’s demographics. The site reports on climate refugees, wind farms, the electrical grid, mountaintop removal, coal activists, religious response, biofuels and other topics. Ten reporters consulted with each other and faculty coaches to determine the best story forms to execute for the multiple elements in each topic.
Photographer, videographer, video editor, copy editor, blogger.
Awards:
2010 Student Society for News Design (Missouri University) College News Design Contest, Best Overall College News Website, 1st Place.
2010 NPPA Best of Photojournalism, 1st Place, News or Feature Multimedia Package, Independent, and overall Best Use of the Web.
2010 Pictures of the Year International, Documentary Project, Award of Excellence.
2009 College Photographer of the Year, Large Group Multimedia Project, Gold.
NPPA Multimedia Contest, August 2009, 2nd Place, Multimedia Project.
Andaman Rising
When the Asian tsunami hit southern Thailand in 2004, the sea that had sustained the region for generations—the Andaman—rose up, destroying families and killing thousands. Three-and-a-half years later, a team of journalists set out for the seaside province of Phang-nga to document the lives and culture of people living by the Andaman. They found a people marked—but not defined—by disaster, a people who have taken on challenges and risen above them.
Videographer, photographer, editor, team video support and equipment logistics.
Awards:
2009 Online Journalism Award for Student Journalism (team award).
2009 Society for News Design Best of Multimedia Design Silver Award (team award).
2009 Horizon Interactive Award, Gold, College & University (team award).
NPPA Multimedia Contest, Sept. 2008, 1st Place, Multimedia Project (team award).
Cape Fear to Down Here
Along North Carolina’s southern coastline lie the subtropical Brunswick islands, which span five barrier islands and 45 miles of beautiful beaches. During the 5th annual Carolina Photojournalism Workshop, students from the University of North Carolina explored the culture and traditions of North Carolina’s rapidly-changing Brunswick Islands.
Videographer, editor, team video trainer.
Awards:
2009 Society for News Design Best of Multimedia Design Award of Excellence (team award).
2009 Horizon Interactive Award, Best in Category, College & University (team award).
2009 Webby Awards, Nominee, Student Category (team).
2009 NPPA Best Of Photojournalism, 1st Place, News or Feature Multimedia Package, Independent (team award).
2008 Atlanta Photojournalism Seminar contest, 2nd Place, Multimedia Interactive (team award).
South of Here
South of Here is a documentary multimedia project produced by students from the University of North Carolina School of Journalism and Mass Communication and the Facultad de Comunicación at the Universidad de los Andes in Santiago, Chile. It explores the history, people and communities of Tierra del Fuego in Argentina and Chile, the surrounding waterways and their critical relationship to the environment.
Stories are told in both English and Spanish.
I visited Puerto Toro on Navarino Island in southern Chile, the southern-most settlement in the world, to contribute the video “Population 36.”
Videographer, editor.
Awards: 2008 Online Journalism Award for Student Journalism, Online News Association (team award).