Here is a copy of the story I filmed for The Weather Channel earlier this month near Atlanta. Myself and a field producer from TWC went to Falcon Air Field, just south of Atlanta, to do a story on the C130J Hurricane Hunter and crew. TWC aired this story during the week of June 22, 2009 for their Hurricane Week series. I filmed this story in HD 1080i on my Panasonic HVX200.
My colleague, Amani Channel (Visual Eye Media), and myself won the bronze award in the 2009 30th Annual Telly Awards for "Educational Use" video on this project for Oglethorpe University.
I was recently behind the lens of a TV commercial that is currently running for Oglethorpe University's Evening Degree Program. Using my Panasonic HDX-900 and HVX200, I was contracted as the DP and Cameraman for this project. This was a great opportunity for me to work with Visual Eye Media, as this was my official debut filming commercials.
Production Note: The final video was down-converted to standard definition from high definition.
I recently did a gig with the Weather Channel, shooting live segments for their "Green is Universal" series. We were on-location at a "green" community, about 45 minutes outside of Atlanta called Serenbe. I plan to go back and visit this community with my wife, later this summer. Here is a short slideshow of photos I took with my Nikon while I was on break from the live shots.
“Mario Page is a complete package. He is a quintessential newsman who finds and develops stories, sets them up, shoots and edits them with high level performance. In coverage of the hurricanes of 2008, Mario was a valued asset traveling from Galveston to North Carolina feeding High Definition signals for our coverage. Mario was involved in our award winning Poverty In America series in a proactive way, contributing to its excellence. He is hard working, a man who "thinks" and can be counted on in difficult coverage situations.”
Will J. Wright , General Manager HDNews/High Definition News
A major top-10 market station, with "I don't know why high ratings," should not have typos on the air. No excuses!!! Unless they laid-off a veteran chyron operator and hired a rookie to do the job.
What happened on the WSB-TV Channel 2 11pm newscast last night (Monday 2/9/2009)? At the beginning of Eric Philips's live shot on layoffs at Clark Atlanta University, the graphics had university misspelled as "univiversity."
A major top 10 market station that makes these mistakes can't be #1.
A week before the 2009 Superbowl, I was assigned to film an interview for the Associated Press Television News Sports division. My interview subject was Charles Trippi of Athens, GA. Charley was born December 14, 1922, and was a professional football player for the Chicago Cardinals.
(Now this shows you how much I know about Chicago sports, because the only team I ever knew or followed growing up was the BEARS!)
Charley, a two-time All-American attended, played for the University of Georgia in 1942. He was named MVP in the 1943 Rose Bowl where Georgia beat UCLA 9 to zero. His college career was interrupted by World War II. Shortly after he continued his football career at Georgia by playing in 1945 and 1946, and graduated in 1951 with a B.S. in Education. He was inducted into the College Football Hall of Fame in 1959, the Georgia Sports Hall of Fame in 1965, and the Pro Football Hall of Fame in 1968.
In the NFL, Charley played in the 1947 Championship Game on an icy field in Chicago as the Cardinals defeated the Philadelphia Eagles, 28-21. What's amazing to me is Charley wore basketball shoes for better traction and totaled 206 yards, including 102 yards on two punt returns, and two touchdowns!!! (I wonder if those were Converse basketball shoes?)
In 2007, Charley Trippi was ranked #20 on ESPN's Top 25 Players In College Football History list.
