AP’s Voter Voices was produced on location in Baghdad, Iraq, in the weeks before the 2010 Iraq parliamentary election. I shot the video in four different neighborhoods in Baghdad, Iraq. The video was also used as part of the larger Associated Press Iraq election interactive I produced.

HONORS

The interactive received the Society of News Design 2010 Quarterly Best of Multimedia Design Winner.

TOOLS

The video was shot on the Canon 5D Mark ii and edited in Final Cut Pro.

While Iraq was preparing for a pivotal parliamentary election, Hollywood was about to celebrate an independent film about bomb-disposal technicians at the annual Academy Awards. The movie won best picture and best director on the same day as the election.

I spent a week embedded with several explosive ordnance disposal teams before the election and the Oscars to get a sense of how much their roles and their lives had changed since 2004 when the film took place.

I filed the above video, as well as raw cuts and photos for AP wire services. I also wrote the print story. click to download PDF

While in Iraq I also produced this interactive, which includes the Voter Voices video essay.

TOOLS

I shot video and photos with the Sony PMW EX1 and Canon 5D Mark ii. I edited in Final Cut Pro.

On election day in Iraq, I filed to all of AP’s wire services. I phoned in color to the desk in Baghdad, filed photos to the photo wire, filed raw video and soundbites to our video services and produced the above tracked package.

While in Iraq I also produced this interactive, which includes the Voter Voices video essay. I also produced an all-format story about the Hurt Locker in Iraq.

TOOLS

I shot video on the Sony PMW EX1 and Canon 5D Mark ii. I edited in Final Cut Pro. I used the Canon 5D Mark ii for photos.

A video on Pennsylvania Army National Guard’s 56th Stryker Brigade Combat Team before their deployment to Iraq on Jan. 20, 2009.

TOOLS

I shot the video on the Sony PMW EX1 and edited the video in Final Cut Pro

For the four weeks leading up to the 2008 presidential election, I traveled across the country speaking with voters about the issues they said were most important to them. Those issues were the economy, health care, energy and the war in Iraq.

It was a multi-platform approach, filing HD frame grabs on the photo wire, and video profiles for each person we spoke to. I wrote a story about the Iraq issue with fellow multimedia reporter Julie Pace. An AP multimedia interactive was updated with daily content.

HONORS

2009 Webby official honoree in the online film & video – News and Politics: Series category

TOOLS

I shot the video on the Sony PMW EX1 and edited in the field on Final Cut Pro. I built the interactive in Flash.

AP photographer Evan Vucci and I shot this video of Barack Obama’s speech at the Democratic National Convention as a part of AP’s premium Convention Plus interactive.

TOOLS

We shot the video on the Sony PMW EX1 and edited the video in Final Cut pro.