MY ROLES: Senior Producer. Editor of Sizzle Reels, Bumpers, Trailers, Debate Video Clips, Satellite Interviews.

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Yahoo! News Debate Teaser – 2008 Presidential Election from Didrik Johnck on Vimeo.

Mac or PC? Favorite Movie? from Didrik Johnck on Vimeo.

Ann Coulter – Hot or Not? from Didrik Johnck on Vimeo.

Hillary Clinton Wildcard Clip from Didrik Johnck on Vimeo.

PROJECT: Teamed up with Road and Track Magazine to create an original content micro-series to be published on Yahoo! Autos. Goals included increasing audience engagement and attracting new advertisers. Shot on location around Southern California.

MY ROLE: Senior Producer. Additional roles: Director, concept development, script writing, talent acquisition, video production

BUMPER:

Five to Drive Opening Bumper from Didrik Johnck on Vimeo.

Affordable Luxury Cars – Five to Drive from Didrik Johnck on Vimeo.

PROJECT: Yahoo! News Underground: The Art Car Episode. We hooked up with some art car rock stars for this adventure including HARROD BLANK >> and TOM KENNEDY >>

The Yahoo! Underground series was an experiment in Social Media. Underground explored the value of igniting discussions online and connecting the audience with those of similar interests. A network of social groups of fringe culture in America was born! Underground received several hundred thousand unique hits monthly. Reporting was brought to life with original songs and music by Brad Miskell. The content package for each episode typically included 3 videos, photography along with writing and original music and lyrics -along with discussions and content provided by viewers.

MY ROLE: Senior Producer

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PROJECT: Yahoo! Underground: Krumping Episode: We hooked up with Tommy the Clown and followed him around as he did shows at schools, concert halls, and hung out in a supermarket parking lot handing out flyers for his performances.

The Yahoo! Underground series was an experiment in Social Media. Underground explored the value of igniting discussions online and   connecting the audience with those of similar interests. A network of social groups of fringe culture in America was born! Underground revived several hundred thousand unique hits monthly. Reporting was brought to life with original songs and music by Brad Miskel. The content package for each episode typically included 3 videos, photography along with writing and original music and lyrics -along with discussions and content provided by viewers.

MORE ABOUT YAHOO! UNDERGROUND >>

MY ROLES: Senior Producer. Director, Editor

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MORE KRUMPING:

Krumping with Clowns from Didrik Johnck on Vimeo.

PROJECT: The 1st online only interview with a sitting U.S. President. George W. Bush granted an online only interview to our Yahoo! News crew. Mike Allen from Politico asked the questions. The above is one of the more entertaining clips out of the 18 edited pieces from the 25 minute interview. READ FULL TRANSCRIPT >>

MY ROLE: Cinematography and General Production.

PRODUCTION CREW: Director: Geoff Nelson. Cinematographers and General Production: Jon Brick, Didrik Johnck, Brad Williams. Executive Producer: Neeraj Khemlani. Producers: Erin Green, Robert Padavick, Jamie Rubin. Motion Graphics: Chris Strimbu, Ben Stahl. Click to enlarge. MORE BEHIND THE SCENES IMAGES >>

Reel from Didrik Johnck on Vimeo.

PROJECT: We created a series of commercials of the hottest toys for the Christmas season to be featured in a Yahoo! Kids interactive Christmas wish list. Commercials had to appeal to toy users themselves (kids), but also to the parents. Because of budget restrictions and timing of the upcoming holiday season, we did the shoot in one-day, one looong day. With 4 talented kids, 50 toys and lots of candy, we successfully produced 30 commercials in time for the pending holiday season.

MY ROLE: Producer, Director of Photography

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VideoNow ColorFX DVD Player Commercial from Didrik Johnck on Vimeo.

Aaron Issacson soaks up 1st Sunlight high on Lobuche. Photo Didrik Johnck.

The following is a short excerpt of Outside Magazine’s feature story on the Soldiers to the Summit Expedition.

TWO YEARS LATER AND STILL HE IMAGINED HIS BLINDNESS AS A TERRIBLE DREAM. He’d wake up and see again. The mountains. A wife whose face he knew only by touch. The sunrise. Everything. His last vision of this world was a dusty, darkened street in northern Baghdad while at the wheel of an enormous armored vehicle. The bomb was simple but lethal: a metal tube stuffed with explosives and capped with a concave copper disk. Powered by the blast, the disk transformed into a jet of molten copper that bored through the thick front passenger door. Shrapnel sliced through his friend Sergeant Victor Cota, then into him. Metal punched through his right temple, ruptured his eyes, gouged holes in his left thigh and right biceps, and mangled his left forearm. Face crushed and body scorched, he was covered in so much of Cota’s blood that fellow soldiers thought he was dead, until he stirred from unconsciousness and wiped his face. Cota died in the truck, and Private First Class Steve Baskis woke up a week later in Walter Reed Army Medical Center to more pain than he’d ever felt and a doctor telling him he’d never see again. Yet he carried an optimism many couldn’t understand. “I just love living, more than anything,” he’d often say.

>>>>>Continue reading the full story by writer Brian Mockenhaupt on OutsideOnline.com.

PROJECT: How do you showcase the Indian state of Assam to an affluent, worldly, and “travel-ready” demographic.  Enter “Richard Bangs’ Adventures with Purpose”; a content package that included a one-hour HD show distributed to over 110 million households via Public Television  (aka: PBS), companion book, tour-package, and web video clips. In Quest for the One-Horned Rhinoceros, Richard Bangs travels in a remote state on the northeastern cusp of India called Assam. It’s a throne-room of rushing rivers, raving monsoons and the most soothing of tea. But perhaps most thrilling of all, Assam is home to a staggering range of wildlife. One animal, the Indian one-horned rhinoceros, stands as a special symbol to the people here. Richard is off to find what the one-horned rhino means to the people of Assam, and why it flourishes here as in no other place. In this documentary Richard examines what the rhino’s story can teach us about our world today; about saving precious wildlife, and—for that matter—all living things. Produced by Small World Productions and Richard Bangs Productions

MY ROLE: Cinematography

AWARDS: Lowell Thomas Gold Award in Travel Broadcast Journalism by the Society of American Travel Writers Foundation

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