It’s such a great feeling to shoot, edit, and post a video. Recently, I was working to capture the APA (American Psychiatric Association) conference in New Orleans. I called my Med School friend, Neil Notaroberto who has set up several successful eye clinics outside of New Orleans. As I had brought my camera gear to the conference, I made the trip to Neil’s clinics for an afternoon to shoot a documentary for use on his Eyecare 20/20 website: http://www.eyecare2020.org .
Neil called his grateful patients- and they signed release forms, and I interviewed them. Neil runs a great practice, so it wasn’t hard to find many patients who were very willing to participate. I interviewed each patient using a Sony EX-1 with 32GB SXS cards as well as some b-roll of Neil and his staff conducting eye procedures and examinations. For lighting, I used natural light and a small Sima 9 LED daylight tuned light- which was fabulous for its portability- and ability to hold a charge during 2 hours of filming- changing examination rooms and walking the clinic.
The piece was edited using FinalCut Pro 7 (and the initial sequence was done using Slide Show mode- with video screen captures using iPhoto on a MacBook Pro and uploaded to YouTube using H.264 in HD. One key aspect of this effort is editing each patient’s story so that it is concise and tells the story without diversions or unnecessary detail.
