Drone video work for Trust for Public Land "This is Deer Creek Beach" piece
Deer Creek Beach is the largest private, undeveloped stretch of coastline in Southern California. We have a once-in-a-lifetime conservation opportunity to permanently protect Deer Creek Beach. If you’re a hiker, birder, backpacker, animal lover, picnicker, surfer, or just looking for a serene spot to watch the ocean – we need your help. Learn more Tpl.org/DeerCreek
Personal project filmed & edited with Chelsea Bond Stuart
WHY WE MARCH explores the reasons why an estimated 4.1 million people marched across the United States the day after Trump's inauguration. Filmed in Los Angeles, California at the LA Women's March, families and friends discuss immigration, politics, Planned Parenthood and other issues that brought them together with an estimated 750,000 people.
Personal project
A short, impromptu love letter made during a brief visit to Venice Beach to test a variable ND filter.
Drone and filming with Chelsea Bond Stuart, who also edited this piece
Our mission at HRF has evolved from the simple notion of providing youth with a fun camp experience to improving young lives and creating a positive impact across South LA. We invest in students, their families, their schools and their communities. We bring youth and parents from Watts and Compton out for a safe, nurturing, and enriching experience at no cost to them, and use that experience to foster positive discourse, provide tools for reflection, and help young men and women set goals to rewrite the future of their school and their community.
Produced with funding from the University of Missouri and the Carnegie Foundation
Firefighters in the Guanacasté National Park in Costa Rica double as park rangers, trying to protect the land and animals. Keeping poachers out and firefighters safe while they tame fast-moving brush fires is a tough feat made more difficult by a lack of technology, including handheld radios. Now these firefighters are looking for a little help from the sky — using drones. Students from the University of Missouri's drone course help these firefighters learn how to fly drones over the course of a week in hopes of aiding them in their conservation efforts.
Filmed and produced for The Missourian
Screams and carnival music fill the air. A familiar feeling arises in your chest. At least, that's what the hope is with "A Midsummer Night's Carnival" video. It is meant to be an experiential video, taking the viewer through a night at the carnival. Familiar sounds and sights fill the screen. This video was made with a combination of a DSLR and a GoPro over two trips to the Boone County Fair, held at the Central Missouri Events Center. At times, the video is shot from my perspective as I went on different rides. At other times, the shots are taken from the perspective of a bystander lost in the events happening around them. Hopefully at the end, you feel as if you spent a night at the carnival. While most videos guide their viewers through with an audio interview, I took a different approach. With this piece, I wanted to strictly guide the viewer through visuals and ambient sounds. It's supposed to be somewhat dreamlike, as many carnivals seem to feel.
I'll let you be the judge.
Filmed and produced for The Missourian
Jo Hackman and her family are long time farmers in the Hartsburg area and have been participating in the Hartsburg Pumpkin Festival since inaugural year in 1991. Every fall they hire local boys to help them harvest all the pumpkins they sell from their house's front porch. It's a tradition the family hopes carries on as long as they do.
Filmed and produced for The Missourian
The USS Aries, a decommissioned Navy hydrofoil used to catch drug runners on the high seas, has languished on the Grand River at Brunswick for 18 years. The ship has been moved to a shipyard on the Gasconade River by its owners, who aspire to make it a mobile museum.