Aaron Paul Vogel

This is the second same-day turn around video I've done for The Sacramento Bee while on internship. I used tape gathered from a live news feed from the funeral and two other video shooters as well as my own tape to put together a short piece.

CHP Officer Scott Russel, 46, a 22-year CHP veteran, was killed Tuesday July 31, 2007, after placing a spike strip in the path of a driver who had led officers on a 30-mile chase. He was standing on the median of Highway 50 near Shingle Springs when he was struck and killed.

This is the first same-day turn around video I've done for The Sacramento Bee while on internship. I went with reporter Christina Jewett to video her interview with the former DJ's of morning radio show The Rave on local station KDND. The pair were fired in January after an on-air contest, where contestants drank water until they couldn't hold their pee anymore - dubbed Wee for a Wii, turned fatal. After the contest 2nd place winner Jennifer Strange died of water intoxication at her home in near by Rancho Cordova.

The pair insist that they were made scape-goats for a management mistake; that they believed the contest had gone through proper channels to be approved - including being okay'd by parent company Entercom's legal department - and thus had no reason to stop the contest despite callers to the show insisting that contestants could die.

I'd like to point those of you with or considering what seems like a complicated audio setup to a not so new freeware program called Soundflower made by Cycling '74. I'd found this program a while ago when I was looking for recording solutions when making calls with Skype, but for one reason or another couldn't get my head around how it works.

Now, for whatever reason, I've finally managed to get a couple of different computers here at The Bee setup with Soundflower. The first computer I setup was in the podcasting room. The Bee has a Mac Mini setup with three Blue USB microphones in a small, soundproofed room that they've used off and on for different podcasts. I setup Skype and Garageband to record telephone interviews for reporters. Without the aid of another USB interface to plug the output of Skype through (let alone free USB port on the back of the Mini) I used Soundflower and an aggregate audio device to simply re-route Skype's output audio to an input in Garageband.

I'd like to draw your attention to the below video. I found it on YouTube through a link posted in the SportsShooter.com forums. It's a music video from what I gather is a German singer. The video was done by Hagen Decker, a German director and shot entirely with a Canon 1D MKIII. It's a fascinating study of what can be done with the amazing tools that we as creative people have a our command. Watch and enjoy!