Presidential Election 2008
September 7, 2009 | Leave a Comment
In the Fall of 2008 and in the heat of the presidential election Yahoo! News produced a slate of original content. Some of the standout pieces were our interviews with all the candidates, an interview with President Bush, and an interview with Secretary of State Condolezza Rice.
Production Notes: Pulling off these groundbreaking interactives required a huge team of people. For more details and behind the scenes notes follow the links to: George Bush Exclusive, Democratic Debate Mashup, Republicans Up Close and Personal, and Condolezza Rice Exclusive.
Yahoo! News Underground
September 7, 2009 | Leave a Comment
Yahoo! News Underground was a regular Yahoo! News feature series that explored fringe culture in America with reporting brought to life with original songs and music.The series included produced video, photo and written reportage, and made in-roads in the social media space with user generated content and interaction. Here are just a few of my favorite clips from the series.
Production Notes: The majority of this show was produced by myself and the show’s creator, Brad Miskell (yes..2 people and one big budget… we got to know each other well).
Underground: Drifters
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Underground: Art Cars
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Rwanda with Daryl Hannah
September 6, 2009 | Leave a Comment
Richard Bangs and company made our next destination the cloud forests of Africa, trekking into the mountains to meet the mountain gorilla – and taking along actress Daryl Hannah for the journey. But Expedition Rwanda wasn’t just about the “charismatic megafauna,” but the remarkable turn-around in Rwanda’s national self-sufficiency in the wake of its tragic civil war of the mid-1990s. So we undertook a new kind of mission, based on what we came to call “adventure with a purpose” – to seek out stories of people who work consciously to improve their lot, and the world as a whole. (In association with the Gorilla Organization.)
Production Notes: One of the goals of Richard Bangs Adventures on Yahoo! was to bring a sense rawness and immediacy to our audience of armchair adventurers. We did this by delivering at least one webisode (and in many cases 2 or 3) per day. The idea was that the audience would return each day to the site; essentially following along the adventure. This deliverable schedule required a well oiled field production machine consisting of producing, shooting, and editing within extremely short time frames. Turnaround time from from rolling the cameras to delivering a finished piece was anywhere from 4-12 hours depending on how much hiking, driving, swimming…etc…
Bosnia: Rebirth of a Nation
September 6, 2009 | Leave a Comment
The rugged interior of Bosnia and Herzegovina was isolated from the tides of time by the Iron Curtain, but with the lifting of trade barriers during the 1990s, and following a disastrous civil war, a new threat emerged to the country’s natural heritage: development. With Bosnia: Rebirth of a Nation, we journeyed from the capital Sarajevo to the old bridge in Mostar, up the course of the Neretva River into primeval, old-growth forests, at last to one of the most remote villages in Europe. Along the way, we discovered the wisdom of its traditions. (In conjunction with Green Visions.
Filming Katy Perry for Yahoo! Music
September 5, 2009 | Leave a Comment
I had the opportunity to shoot Katy Perry doing an exclusive acoustic performance of “I Kissed a Girl” for the Yahoo! Music’s Who’s Next show. We shot this in Yahoo’s in-house studio in Santa Monica, California. Credits:
Filming on the Eiger
September 5, 2009 | Leave a Comment
For our premier adventure, the RBA media crew joined forces with a crack team of mountaineering filmmakers from MacGillivray Freeman Films to cover a dramatic and life-fulfilling expedition in the Swiss Alps with Expedition Eiger. Our focus: John Harlin III, whose father died trying to climb the 5,960-foot (1,800-meter) rock wall of the North Face of the Eiger. Four decades later, Harlin made the attempt himself, while his wife and young daughter looked on. The result was the first RBA production, and the centerpiece of the IMAX film “The Alps.” (More about the movie.)
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Secrets of the Sea Gypsies
September 5, 2009 | Leave a Comment
The day after Christmas, 2004, an earthquake off the coast of Sumatra triggered a natural disaster in which nearly 200,000 people throughout Southeast Asia lost lives and several million their homes. But in the midst of this catastrophe, on a small archipelago in the Andaman Sea, a tribe of several hundred villagers escaped almost certain extinction by a simple precaution: they listened to the prophetic dreams of their elders. With ex-pat John Gray, we searched for the secrets of the sea gypsies on Expedition Thailand: Survivors of the Tsunami.
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