Dropmotion is a band featured on “The Beat~Sounds from the Underground.”
Producer: Jill Newman
Dropmotion is a band featured on “The Beat~Sounds from the Underground.”
Producer: Jill Newman
The Great Handcar Regatta, was a blitzkrieg of colorful creative artistry! A local community event involving several live stages, tents, vendors, exhibitions, scheduled handcar races along a functional railroad track and tens of thousands of spectators and participants spread over approximately 3+ square city blocks. The event was viewed live as far away as Japan! It is the largest production conducted by the local community media center still to date.
The production utilized a 25-person crew of sweaty volunteers, who ran 6 cameras. 2 cameras sent live feed to both the Internet and television, and 4 others were roaming around the maybem collecting footage of festival activities. The tapes were then brought back to the production truck via runners, captured, and aired “semi-live.” It was a 14-hour production day in 100 degree heat!
I designed the program to be a live and “semi-live” production. Pre-production required locating many outside collaborators who would donate existing video, graphics, and still images, which were used to produce interview packages, video interstitials and many identifying slates for the program. The production also required establishing invaluable working relationships with community business owners to establish web connection, power sources, etc.
There was no precedence at the community media center for this style of remote semi-live & live production. It was pretty groundbreaking for them and I was thrilled to have the opportunity to do it.
This is my promo for the parade. I also did the voice over. “…and you know what THAT means!!!”
Editor, Voiceover: Jill Newman
Sonoma Serengeti is about a wildlife preserve named Safari West that has cheetahs, giraffes and many other African species big and small.
Producer: Jill Newman
Production Assistant: Sebastian Wolff
Sculptor, Boback Emad, discusses his vision and method for creating and placing a 6 ton sculpture. Great footage by yours truly.
Producer: Jill Newman
Production Assistant: Deshler Cameron
Photography: Tabitha Deering
Each year, the Civil War is reenacted in Duncan’s Mill’s CA. It’s a cool story with a lot of live action, even some daredevil camera operator feats from inside the ambulance! (My backside still hurts!) Know what else is cool? They use rescued race horses!
Producer: Jill Newman
Additional Cameras: Sebastian Wolff, Dan Villalva
Two artists/teachers/life partners, Anusati and Geetesh, share their journey with art as they use it as a therapeutic method to discover their inner selves.
Contact Anusati and Geetesh at http://www.larkgalleryonline.com/represented_artists/geetesh_gibson/index.html
Producer: Jill Newman
Such an important concept being realized at this organization who is involving community entrepreneurs to sustain its economy.
Producer: Jill Newman
A group of humanitarian cyclists decided to join the Bicycles for Humanity effort and send a shipment of bikes and a ready-made bike repair shop to Africa.
Producer: Jill Newman
Additional video and images: Dave Townsend
Bryan Tedrick is an artist who works with mostly kinetic interactive LARGE art. He also is an established commissioned artist for the now infamous Burning Man Festival. The piece featured in this story is a sculpture created for the 2011 Burning Man Festival entitled, “Orgasm.”
Visit Bryan Tedrick at http://www.bryantedrick.com
Producer: Jill Newman
Additional video: James Mahood
Additional images: Wendell DeLano
Soundtrack Song “Free Ticket to Burning Man,” “Tower of Love” : Miranda Edinger