{"id":18457,"date":"2013-05-27T09:00:58","date_gmt":"2013-05-27T13:00:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/120.72.95.94:55167\/assignmentdesk\/site\/?p=18457"},"modified":"2016-05-12T16:23:09","modified_gmt":"2016-05-12T20:23:09","slug":"dallas-crew-covers-murdered-texas-da-story-for-nbcs-today-show","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/120.72.95.94:55167\/assignmentdesk\/site\/2013\/dallas-crew-covers-murdered-texas-da-story-for-nbcs-today-show\/","title":{"rendered":"Dallas Crew Covers Murdered Texas DA Story for NBC\u2019s Today Show"},"content":{"rendered":"

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By now I\u2019m sure most of you have heard about the tragic murders of Texas District Attorney, Mike McLelland and his wife.\u00a0 I was called in by NBC News to shoot some interviews with the children of the slain DA.\u00a0 I headed down to Mexia, TX with my trusty Panasonic HDX 900 to get the job done.<\/p>\n

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A screen grab from JR McLelland’s interview.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Upon arriving we set up in a rather large conference room.\u00a0 I fully expected to be stuck in a small room but I got lucky this time.\u00a0 Our biggest challenge was finding objects to dress the background.\u00a0 Honestly, there wasn\u2019t much to work with.\u00a0 I couldn\u2019t even find a fake plant.\u00a0 Ha!<\/p>\n

I used my 400w & 200w Kino Flos to mold my subjects.\u00a0 An Arri 150w was used as a backlight.\u00a0 The background was lit with one Arri 300w fixture.\u00a0 After the interviews I shot some pictures that the family had brought.\u00a0 Afterwards we filmed a few shots of the family walking by the camera.\u00a0 It was nothing special. \u00a0We just wanted to make sure we sent NBC all the b-roll we possibly could for this story.<\/p>\n

It wasn\u2019t long before my audio guy and I were on the road heading to NBC\u2019s affiliate in Fort Worth, TX.\u00a0 Once we got there we fed the tape to New York.\u00a0 We also gave the Fort Worth station a few sound bites for their 11pm news broadcast. \u00a0The story aired the following morning on the Today Show.<\/p>\n

Shoots like this are always tough.\u00a0 My heart really goes out to the family of the DA and his wife.\u00a0 I can\u2019t imagine what they\u2019re going through right now.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

By now I\u2019m sure most of you have heard about the tragic murders of Texas District Attorney, Mike McLelland and his wife.\u00a0 I was called in by NBC News to shoot some interviews with the children of the slain DA.\u00a0 I headed down to Mexia, TX with my trusty Panasonic HDX 900 to get the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":46,"featured_media":24569,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[110],"tags":[109,563,2172,457,138,263],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/120.72.95.94:55167\/assignmentdesk\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18457"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/120.72.95.94:55167\/assignmentdesk\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/120.72.95.94:55167\/assignmentdesk\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/120.72.95.94:55167\/assignmentdesk\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/46"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/120.72.95.94:55167\/assignmentdesk\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18457"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/120.72.95.94:55167\/assignmentdesk\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18457\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/120.72.95.94:55167\/assignmentdesk\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/24569"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/120.72.95.94:55167\/assignmentdesk\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18457"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/120.72.95.94:55167\/assignmentdesk\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18457"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/120.72.95.94:55167\/assignmentdesk\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18457"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}