Off Road Warriors

2nd Decade Productions headed out to Las Vegas to produce "Off Road Warriors" - a sports reality show surrounding the Menzies racing team. This trailer and upcoming pilot episode will be used to sell the show to networks and sponsors. I was on location shooting with an HDX900 and running timelapses with my D90. I also did all the editing and graphic work.



Search for the ANSER

ANSER is the Argonne Northwestern Solar Energy Research Center. Hess Productions produced a half hour show that aired on the Big Ten Network called "Search for the ANSER". I shot and edited the program which included a significant amount of timelapse shots. The full show is available here.



Wedding Timelapse

I set up a timelapse at a friend's wedding and let it run throughout the reception. In post, I was able to manipulate the timing and do some moves on the image to create this video.



Dearborn Obseravatory

For the past few years, I have worked with Hess Productions to create News@Northwestern - a half hour news magazine show that airs on the Big Ten Network. Northwestern posts the stories on their YouTube channelafter they air. This one is about the Dearborn Observatory. In all, we've created over 15 hours of programming for Northwestern.



Superior Piling Marketing Video

2nd Decade Productions produced this industrial marketing video for Superior Piling. I edited the piece.



MPC Creative Reel

Highlights from the past few years of production with three full spots at the end.



Heinz “Now We Can Eat”

A few summers ago I rounded up some family and friends to shoot a commercial for a Heinz Ketchup contest. Not only did it turn out great, but my first ever contest commercial went on to win the grand prize of $57,000 and was shown on national cable networks for several months!



Green Technology at CES

In 2008, I traveled to CES in Las Vegas to shoot a video for Expert Real Estate Tips.net. I shot and edited this piece which was distributed online through Discover Card's website, as well as Expert Real Estate Tips' YouTube Channel.



Mr. President

This spot was created for the Career Builder Hire My Ad Super Bowl contest. It didn't go on to win, but turned out to be a solid spot. I wrote, directed, and edited "Mr. President" and Mark James shot it on a Sony Ex3 with a Letus adapter and Nikon lenses.

Winding River

Winding River

While flying back to Talkeetna, Alaska from Denali our small flight-seeing plane flew over this beautiful river. I was lucky to get a good shot of it.



Dawen “Wake Up”

Dawen is an up and coming Pop/R&B artist that I knew from Northwestern. He needed a music video, and I wanted to make one, so we made "Wake Up" happen.

Director: Matt Cozza
DP: Mark James

Driftwood

Driftwood

While driving up the coast of New Zealand, we found a spot a little out of the way that had this incredible driftwood.

We weren't the only ones though. A group of travelers had gotten their car stuck in the sand. I helped them get out and then took this shot.

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Coat Hanger Bridge

Coat Hanger Bridge

I took this shot just before the sun set over Sydney. I couldn't help but stick around, shooting until the sun was completely down.

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Brandon and Nancy

This is the first wedding video I've made. Two close friends of mine tied the knot in October 2009. I shot most of this with my Nikon D90 using a 50mm prime and a 10-20mm wide angle zoom. A couple ceremony shots were borrowed from the official videographer's camera. Despite it's flaws, the D90 can shoot great video if you use it correctly.



Staging Your Home for Sale

I helped create over 300 videos for the Expert Real Estate Tips YouTube Channel.



Jim Beam “The Eco-Tragedy”

This was created for a Jim Beam commercial contest where the goal was to spoof their commercials with the taglines "The Girlfriend", "The Party", or "The Tragedy". This commercial took second place in the contest. I shot it with a Sony EX3 and edited on Final Cut Pro. "The Eco-Tragedy" was written and directed by Mark James.

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Tour de France

On a trip to Europe, I got to catch the end of the Tour de France right in the heart of Paris.