Work
from ideas to execution
Grass roots instruction: A Crash Course in Video
During the work-from-home period, UVic instructors were forced to carry on as best they could with what they had, and also rapidly and completely move their courses from face-to-face to online. This site of simple instructions on doing the video and audio end of things with simple household tools included my own design of the cardboard box document camera.
Award Winning: Delirium in the older person: A Medical Emergency
Delirum was my first major-budget video edit at Vancouver Island Health. It won a FREDDIE - an International Health and Medical Media Award, for which I was present at the acceptance in New York. Delirum was a team effort and my job was to take the interviews and script and make the plan work. I found the little moments, the counterpoints and created graphics and pick up shots.
Production Value: Cool It! Climate Leadership Training
For this promo for British Columbia Sustainable Energy Association, I added the most production value I could on a limited budget. Shooting with a large sensor DSLR, verité-syle in classrooms, I captured real moments of students engaging with the program and celebrating their pizza party award. Adding in some narration from my daughter to match the verisimilitude of the footage and we had a small success.
A Way of Being: Paul Burke Training Group
Motivational Interviewing (MI) is not so much a counselling practice but a way of being and a life long learning pursuit. In the series of instructional DVDs and web videos, Paul Burke Training and Consulting Group demonstrates the process and discusses the subtleties of good MI engagement. The series includes: Practice Pieces, Getting the Ball Rolling, Listening Him to Yes, and Motivational Interviewing in Diabetes Care/Diabetes Education.
Fun Facts: Get to Know Your Gustavson
The professors at the Gustavson School of Business needed a fun video for student recruitment. Unfortunately for them it meant being peppered with personal questions. This was my chance to cut in a YouTube jump-cut style. Lucky for me, I had years of Jean Luc Godard screenings to draw from.
Graphical Story: Design Thinking at work
To promote his new book, Design Thinking at Work, David Dunne, Professor of Innovation & Design, and Director of UVic MBA Program, approached me to make a video teaser trailer. With some ideas from David, a few images from his research, we shot a headshot monologue and built graphics elements from the book's the design language to tell the story.
Building Structure: Telling it like it is
Jacob Beaton of Coppermoon Communications and Zsolt Sandor shot some beautiful and sensitive footage for Telling It Like It Is, a document on aboriginal youth navigating tough issues and sharing their successes. I was brought in to pull it together. I remember mapping out the structure of the video on my wall with coloured post-it notes, interweaving the stories and themes with the process of writing and recording a hip-hop song lead by Mike Sheene.
Learning to Listen: Reduce Speed: a film about crystal meth
Dr. Doug McGhee walked into the VIHA audio visual office one day with a box of DV interviews he shot with youth telling their stories of the crystal meth epidemic. He was lost on what to do next. I was assigned a month's worth of evenings in the edit suite to see what I could do. It was my first edited doc and I pulled out all the tricks in my book but also learned to listen, because the participants were the experts not the doctors, police or the social workers.
Live Work Play: VIHA Recruitment
For healthcare, staff recruitment is an issue. Doctors, nurses and health practitioners have the ability to pick and choose employment almost anywhere around the world. For Vancouver Island Health, competing on price is a losing game, but they can compete with the beauty and livestyle of living on Vancouver Island. I went out with just a DV cam, a small lighting kit, and an attitude to craft the best shots I could and luckily had the timeframe to go get them.
Video proposal: CT Colonography: Virtual Colonoscopy
The Department of Radiology at Vancouver Island Health had a radical idea: create 3D fly-throughs of a patient's colon constructed from low radiation CT scans to screen for colon cancer instead of a traditional colonoscopy using a scope. I helped get their video proposal for reducing patient risk and increasing access for colonoscopy screening to the board.