SCJ Clean Start Challenge 2010 Promo

This is a short promo video advertising the start of the search for contestants for the 2010 edition of SC Johnson's Clean Start Challenge series. This was edited using Final Cut Pro 6 and After Effects CS3.

SCJ Clean Start Challenge 2010 Promo

12 Men of Christmas

Two EPKs to promote Lifetime Original Movie "12 Men of Christmas" starring Kristin Chenoweth. As always I was given free reign with these videos and created the graphics for them as well. The third video is a "mash-up" used to propagate the films calender of men. All three were edited on Final Cut Pro 6 and graphics were created using Livetype and After Effects CS3.

12 Men of Christmas: Kristin Chenoweth on E.J. Baxter



12 Men of Christmas: The Calender Men



12 Men of Christmas: The Calender

"A Christmas Hope"

A promo EPK as well as a music video "mash-up" created for the Lifetime Original Movie based on Donna Van Liere's novel "A Christmas Hope." I chose the subject for these videos and built them from the ground up. Both videos were edited with Final Cut Pro 6 and the graphics were created with After Effects CS3.

The Christmas Hope: Author Donna Van Liere Discusses The Movie



The Christmas Hope: The Message of The Christmas Hope

Ann Rule's "Everything She Ever Wanted"

One promo EPK for the Lifetime Original Movie based on Ann Rule's novel "Everything She Ever Wanted." I had complete creative freedom for this video, choosing the subject matter for it and building it from the ground up. This video was edited with Final Cut Pro 6 and the graphics were created using After Effects CS3.

Ann Rule's "Everything She Ever Wanted": A Southern Sociopath

Ann Rule's "Too Late To Say Good-Bye"

Two shortform EPKS I edited promoting the Lifetime Original Movies based on the Ann Rule novel "Too Late To Say Good-bye." I had complete creative control over these videos and designed the graphics for them as well. Both videos were edited with Final Cut Pro 6 and the graphics were created using After Effects CS3.


Ann Rule's "Too Late To Say Good-Bye": A Rare Kind of Movie


Ann Rule's "Too Late To Say Good-Bye": The Appeal of True Stories

SCJ Clean Start Challenge 2009 - Jennifer

The Clean Start Challenge was a monthly Reality show competition sponsored by SC Johnson. It featured 4 women who wanted to make a clean start and had set a goal for themselves that would help them do it. Each month they had to complete a task set out for them while so striving to reach their ultimate clean start goal. Each woman appeared a month challenge video as well as an update video, which they shot themselves. I edited all of the videos for these women but have included those for Jennifer because I also shot those as well and she was the winner of the series. The videos were filmed using the HVX-200a in SD mode. It was edited with Final Cut Pro 6 and the graphics were created in After Effects CS3.

SCJ Clean Start Challenge 2009: Jennifer's Introduction


SCJ Clean Start Challenge 2009: The Environmental Challenge



SCJ Clean Start Challenge 2009: The Friends & Family Challenge



SCJ Clean Start Challenge 2009: Winner Announcement
(This is the only video of Jennifer's that I didn't shoot)

iVillage - Non-vlog content

No Reservation Interview
Small interview assembled from the film's EPK package and footage shot by the film's press junket film crew.



On This Day
A short daily video recounting major historical events and birthdays for each individual day of the year. Video was created using Photoshop and Final Cut Studio 2. Audio was captured using the DVX-100a.

iVillage - I Wish Someone Told Me

This iVillage vlog series was intended as an educational resource for new parents. I helped produce some of the series, cut all of the episodes and worked with a graphics designer to develop the intro, lower 3rds and transitions. This was edited in Final Cut Studio 2.

iVillage.com - vlogs

iVillage.com was a sister company to NBC Universal's Digital Studios. I was originally farmed out to them by Digital Studios and then eventually made the jump to a staff member there. They had a strong focus on daily and weekly vlogcasts such as the following:

Daily Blabber Version 2
The Daily Blabber started out as a regular celebrity gossip blog but I felt it needed a strong hook and so pushed for a more comedic take. This included adding humorous graphics to underscore what the host was saying. All of these graphics were of my own creation and came from my own imagination. The show was daily and had a turnaround time of only a few hours. It was shot using a DVX-100a in front of a green screen at the iVillage offices. I both lit and shot the video as well as was responsible for capturing clear audio. It was edited and chroma keyed in Final Cut Studio 2, and the graphics were created using Photoshop, Motion and Final Cut. The show's intro was also designed by me.



TV Cocktail
The site's TV gossip/news vlog, also filmed in front of a green screen at iVillage's offices. I both lit and shot the video as well as was responsible for capturing clear audio. It was edited and chroma keyed in Final Cut Studio 2. This was a weekly show.



Sex on My Desk
iVillage's celebrity sex vlog. Film in the same location as the other iVillage vlogs, and I was responsible for all elements of shooting and editing this. It was a weekly show.



The Fashionator
iVillage's celebrity fashion vlog, also filmed in front of a green screen at the iVillage office. I was entirely responsible for its production and post-production. It was a weekly show.



Stuff We Love
iVillage's product vlog. A weekly shoot using a DVX-100a in front of a backdrop. I shot and lit the video then edited it on Final Cut Studio 2.

Manual Microdermabrasion Peel System

This was a sales video created for Cospro Inc to play on video monitors in their stores. I was involved in all levels of the production. I designed the set, lit it and then shot the footage with a DVX-100A. The graphics were created in Livetype and the video edited in Final Cut Studio . The producer/director sat in on the edit session.

Unfinished NBC Digital Studios project - What The Fight

Sadly, when Digital Studios was closed down the project I had put the most amount of work into was left unfinished. What The Fight was intended as a game of sorts. People would visit the WTF site, select their combatants as well as their weapons and then would get to see a short video of the resulting fight. Over 100 different fights were filmed and more half were in some stage of editing when the project was abandoned. Of that number I was editing about half. I was given free reign with this. All that was provided was the footage and I would construct the fights however I chose. The following fights are the only ones I managed to take with me and are all in various stages of completion.

The Beta version of the site is still up and fights, which I cut the vast majority of, are viewable there: http://whatthefight.com/

This first video is entirely my own creation. The actually video was originally only supposed to be the footage you see at the end. I felt it didn't work on its own and so invented the intro that comes before it.

Old NBC Digital Studios Work

Sadly, because NBC shut down Digital Studios so unexpectedly, well, for me at least, I was never able to collect copies of my work from there. Here are a few of the samples I have been able to find:

Untitled News Comedy Show
Shot in LA on Beta and then copied over to NYC servers, this project was edited on Final Cut with the producer sitting in on the sessions. It eventually aired on Dotcomedy.com, which doesn't allow embedding so I can only post a link to the episode. I also provided some finishing on earlier episodes when the original editor wasn't available.

http://video.dotcomedy.com/player/?id=61737

Hot Crush
All 5 episodes of this show were shot in a single day. I operated the second camera, a Panasonic DVX-100B, and was responsible for picking the best angles and positions after being assigned an area to shoot from.

Things That Go Boom - Watch more Funny Videos


Liquid Nitrogen Gets Things Hard - Watch more Funny Videos


Tickle This... - Watch more Funny Videos


Drop it Like it2019s a Computer - Watch more free videos


Shut the F Up - Watch more free videos

Special of the Day
This was a commissioned show that Digital Studio's produced for sister company iVillage. Cut with FCP I was assistant editor for the series and would put together a rough cut for the editor based on the producers original paper edit. iVillage's website doesn't allow for embedding so I can only post a link to one of the videos.

http://video.ivillage.com/player/?id=29032

The Start

I recently realized that I don't have an up-to-date reel with which to show off the body of my work. The reality has been that I've moved from one staff job to the next, essentially being headhunted rather than applying, and so haven't had much need for one.

But the times they are a changing. A friend, who's a fellow editor, mentioned that his reel isn't up-to-date either but that he makes up for it with a blog that houses all of his new work as it becomes available. Since I'm usually pressed for time I think that's a pretty brilliant way of going about it and so I'm shamelessly stealing the idea. In the coming weeks this blog will begin to be a storage space for any videos I've either shot or edited that are available on the web. It probably won't be of much interest to a casual reader but then I've never managed to be a consistent or interesting blogger anyway.