Thursday, March 3, 2011

Columbine Massacre


On April 20th 1999 I went into work like any other day, a day that changed so many lives. This is the 'one-man-band' piece I shot and edited that day. As photojournalists we often witness history. This was a day I will never forget. This is the 'one-man-band' natural sound piece I produced, shot and edited for that evenings local news while working as a photojournalist for the local tv station KUSA-TV in Denver. All of the images and sounds are what I captured with my camera that day; what I saw, shot, experienced, videotaped, heard, witnessed and edited that day. This is one of four pieces I put together that day. This one aired on the stations 10p pm news. This is 2 and a half-minute news 'pkg' which I edited down from the 60 minutes of footage I shot that day. Some of these images and sounds were used in Michael Moore's Academy Award winning film 'Bowling For Columbine'. These images and sounds have also been used in numerous documentaries, CNN, Dateline NBC, The History Channel, a Bill Kurtis documentary and a Marilynn Manson music video, among numerous other cable and network broadcasts. WIKIPEDIA: The Columbine High School massacre occurred on Tuesday, April 20, 1999, at Columbine High School in Columbine, an unincorporated area of Jefferson County, Colorado, United States, near Denver and Littleton. Two senior students, Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold, embarked on a massacre, killing 12 students and one teacher. They also injured 21 other students directly, and three ...

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