Phil Daquila

The Wall Street Journal: Cars

Phil — Sat, 02 Jul 2011 22:14:27 +0000

Daquila serves as a multimedia producer for WSJ.com. As a freelancer, he is paired with automotive journalist Dan Neil, whose “Rumble Seat” column appears in print and online in the WSJ weekend section. Since April 2010, Daquila has created video shorts for the web to accompany the car reviews. Neil provides his commentary and appears on camera, and Daquila shoots and edits the reports.

Neil is the winner of the 2004 Pulitzer Prize in criticism for his car columns in the Los Angeles Times.

Cars covered include Aston Martin, Hyundai, Jaguar, Porsche, Range Rover and VW. Each video receives up to 15,000 streams in the first week of posting, often ranking in the top 10 most watched on the site.

Also go directly to the WSJ Autos Video Center.

Living Fully

Phil — Sat, 02 Jul 2011 14:40:05 +0000

Staff and patient voices tell the story of the Hospice & Palliative Care Center of Alamance-Caswell in Burlington, N.C.

26-minute video commissioned by the agency and produced by Ellen Ozier Photography LLC.

Used by HAC to introduce all its services to staff, volunteers and donors. Also featured on HAC home page.

Videographer, editor.

Producer, still photographer, audio: Ellen Ozier.

Biofuels and the Florida reed-weed debate

Phil — Fri, 20 Aug 2010 06:49:30 +0000

An Atlanta bio-energy development company has found a way to mass-produce giant cane as a source for alternative fuels. But weed watchers in Florida are worried that the fast-growing grass could also be a dangerous invader.

Reporting done from Florida, North Carolina, South Carolina and Texas for Powering A Nation, the UNC-CH News21 project on energy.

Writer, editor, narrator.

Awards:
2010 Student Society for News Design (Missouri University) College News Design Contest, Best One-Subject Stand-Alone Mini-Site or Special Section, Honorable Mention.

Download the radio story.

Anchored in Faith

Phil — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 02:58:30 +0000

Ko Panyee is a true island village, built on stilts above the bay in southern Thailand. The humble community seems happy in its poor fishing heritage and Islamic faith but is also buoyed by a steady lunch crowd of tourists from nearby Phuket.

Photographer, videographer, editor.

Featured in Endeavors, the magazine of research and creative activity at UNC-Chapel Hill, Spring 2009.

UNC Kenan-Flagler Profiles

Phil — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 21:09:32 +0000

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.

Moving to Higher Ground

Phil — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 21:44:37 +0000

Villagers from the small coastal Alaskan town of Newtok have endured extreme weather leading to massive erosion. Though not at fault, this group of some 350 Yup’ik Eskimos is among the planet’s first casualties of climate change. They are forced by rising sea levels and melting permafrost to relocate, but uncertainties in funding this unprecedented event place the village in danger. Because Newtok hopes to stay together to maintain their strong traditions, the entire community has chosen to work through frustrations to move intact to a new village site on higher ground.

Photographer, videographer, editor.

Awards:
2010 Student Society for News Design (Missouri University) College News Design Contest, Best One-Subject Stand-Alone Mini-Site or Special Section, Honorable Mention.
NPPA Multimedia Contest, Sept. 2009, 2nd Place, Team Video.

Featured on Mother Nature Network, Carolina Alumni Review and The Best of News21.

Segment in Episode 19 of Earth Focus on LinkTV, airing also on DIRECTV and DISH Network.

TimeSpace: Inauguration

Phil — Tue, 20 Oct 2009 14:17:43 +0000

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.

Explore the site.

One Way In, One Way Out

Phil — Sun, 11 Oct 2009 02:12:58 +0000

The people of Crusoe Island, the once-isolated rural area between the Waccamaw River and the Green Swamp in Columbus County, N.C., have gained notoriety as much for being suspicious and quick-tempered as for skills in hunting, fishing, wood crafts and pickin’-n-singin’.

Videographer, editor.

The Improvisers

Phil — Sat, 29 Aug 2009 19:24:12 +0000

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.

Meet The Improvisers.

Start of the Sound

Phil — Wed, 26 Aug 2009 22:25:55 +0000

Making music on a woodwind all starts with that vibrating piece of cane.

Videographer, editor.