Entrepreneur: Profiles of Innovation was a 12 part video series for culturmap.com about some of Houston’s creative entrepreneurs who have followed a passion and started their own business.  This series was produced by Douglas Newman of MouthWatering Media and myself over three months in 2011.  The series was a great experiment to figure out how to get low cost, high quality video content produced for the web.  For most of the 12 segments I handled all aspects of the production; camera, sound and editing, while Douglas conducted the interviews.  By the end we got into a really good rhythm that I felt maximized the budget and our time and created, in my opinion, 12 really compelling video profiles of Houston’s creative entrepreneurs.  Below are a few of my favorites.

Entrepreneur: Profiles of Innovation-Anita Jaisinghani

This segment features restauranteur Anita Jaisinghani who has revolutionized Indian cuisine in Houston by using local ingredients to create a Indian inspired dishes at her two restaurants, Ponicheri and Indika.

 

Entrepreneur: Profiles of Innovation-Danny Arnold

This segment features physical therapist and trainer, Danny Arnold, who trains some of the best pro athletes in the NFL.

Entrepreneur: Profiles of Innovation-Elaine Turner

This segment features fashion designer, Elaine Turner.

 

Entrepreneur: Profiles of Innovation-Gilbert Perez

This segment features Gilbert Perez, who recues craftsman bungalows and restores them to their original glory.

 

Entrepreneur: Profiles of Innovation-Community Cloth

This segment is about Community Cloth, a non profit that teaches women the Burmese refugee community in Houston to sell their handmade garments.

 

Entrepreneur: Profiles of Innovation-Quinn Bishop

This segment features Quinne Bishop, owner of Cactus Music, a legendary record store in Houston, TX.

This is a behind the scenes fashion video I shot and edited for accessories designer Elaine Turner. Her fall collection features Audrey Hepburn inspired accessories and shoes.

DP/Editor: JC
Producer: Douglas Newman
Production Company: Mouth Watering Media

Filmed with a 5D and edited in FCP7

This film was made to celebrate the opening of the new Tootsies at West Ave in River Oaks. The film features the beautiful architecture of the store and cloths from top designers.

Client: Tootsies
Production Company: Mouthwatering Media
Producers/Directors: John Carrithers and Douglas Newman
Director of Photography: John Carrithers
Additional Camera Ops: Haden Garrett.
Editor: John Carrithers
Shot on Canon DSLRs and edited on FCP

This film was created to document the creation of a large scale gunpowder painting for the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston by renowned artist Cai Guo Qiang.  After many months of preparation, Cai and his team came to Houston where they spent six days laying out the panels, creating stencils and testing the gun powder.  All of this preparation came to realization when Cai ignited the gunpowder painting on October 6th, 2010, causing the image to sear into the canvas.  This beautiful work of art can be viewed in the Arts of China Gallery at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston.  This gallery was curated by Christine Starkmen.
© The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston. All rights reserved.

• Client:  Museum of Fine Arts, Houston
• Production Company:  Mouthwatering Media
• Producers/Directors:  John Carrithers and Douglas Newman
• Director of Photography:  John Carrithers
• Additional Camera Ops:  Chris Nelson, Camilo Gonzales, Haden Garrett.
• Editor:  John Carrithers
• Shot on Canon DSLRs and edited on FCP

This is a short piece I created with ttweak to promote the new Kinder Institute for Urban Research at Rice University. Dr. Klineberg has been conducting the Houston Area Survey for 30 years. This will is the 1st of a series of videos about his research.

Production/Creative Company: Ttweak http://ttweak.com
Directors: Dave Thompson, Randy Twaddle, John Carrithers
DP: John Carrithers
Gaffer: George Mays
Production Sound: Brian Albritten
Interrotron Camera: Chris Nelson
Editor: John Carrithers
Mix: Chris Bourque

This is a short piece about the inspiration behind the Arts of Asia Galleries at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston. It features Chinese artist Cai Guo-Qiang and Korean artist Do-Ho Suh.

© 2010 The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston. All rights reserved.

Production Company: Mouth Watering Media
Producer: Douglas Newman
Director: John Carrithers
DP: JC
Gaffer: George Mays
Production and Post Sound: Matt Crawford
Editor: John Carrithers

So far five women have shared their stories with us for this film about mothers deployed to the conflicts in Iraq and Afghanistan and this is one of them. This segment is about Sgt. Erica Lewis. She was stationed in Iraq from 2003-2004.

The film is a collaboration between Laura Browder, a professor of American studies at the University of Richmond, Douglas Newman, a filmmaker from Houston, and myself.

Production Sound: Rebecca Rhode
Gaffer: George Mays
DP/Edit: JC

Shot on an EX1 with Letus Extreme and Cooke S4 lenses
Edited on FCP

This film was created for the Museum of Fine Arts Houston to mark the 10th anniversary of their ICAA Documents Project. This project sent researchers all over Latin America to find and archive photographs and documents about 20th century art, artist, curators and critics from the region.

© 2011 The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston. All rights reserved.

Client: MFAH
Production Company: Mouthwatering Media
Producer: Douglas Newman
DP/Editor: John Carrithers
Production Sound: Brian Albrighten
Gaffer: George Mays
Animation: Sianey Montes de Orca
Post Sound: Matt Crawford

This video was produced for Clean Line Energy, an ambitious company who’s mission is to build new transmission lines to encourage more wind development in the US. Without new transmission, wind development will eventually stop.

Client: Clean Line Energy
Production Company: Ttweak (ttweak.com)
Producer/DP/Editor: John Carrithers
Directors: ttweak
Gaffer: George Mays
Location Sound: Joe Hancock
Additional Photography: Chris Nelson
Post Audio: Matt Crawford
Graphic Design: Rene Cruz

This film was created for St. Louis based wind developer, Wind Capital Group. It’s a short profile piece that was created for AWEA’s Wind Power 2010 in Dallas. Most of the film was shot using an EX1 with a Letus Extreme 35mm lens adaptor. The interviews were shot with ultra primes and the BROLL was shot with Nikons.

Client: Wind Capital Group
Production Company: ttweak (ttweak.com)
Director: Randy Twaddle
Producer: John Carrithers
DP: John Carrithers
2nd Camera: Christopher Nelson
Gaffer: George Mays
Prod Sound: Joe Hancock
Post Prod Sound: Matt Crawford