Current Interests, Activities, and Projects

High Definition Video Production

David Crowder Band Concert (working title), an HDTV production of the "release party" concert for the bands' Collision CD.

Car Guy (working title), a documentary about automotive journalist Josh Jacquot (formerly editor/photographer at Sport Compact Car magazine, now at Edmunds.com's Inside Line), currently in post-production.Saving Allies, the Hmong Emigration to the US (working title), a documentary about the Hmong refugees from Laos, currently in pre-production.
Yeti Stories (working title), a documentary exploring the Yetti myth in Nepal, currently in pre-production.

Digital Living Network Alliance -- Test Materials

The DLNA is an industry group that is focused on interoperability standards for home media networks and devices. I specified, produced, and encoded digital test materials in approximately 50 different MPEG2 formats to determine compliance with the Digital Living Network Alliance specifications. Test materials were originated and edited in HDTV, and then encoded in a variety of pixel structures, frame rates, bit rates, and audio formats for use in DLNA compliance testing “plug fests,” August 2005. Currently investigating the production of similar test materials in the several MPEG4 formats.

Video Games and the Video Game Industry

The video game industry is a $10 billion per year business in North America (NPD Fun World, 2002).  Approximately 60% of all Americans, or about 145 million people, play some form of an interactive game on a regular basis (Hart Research, 2000).  The video game industry exhibits extremely rapid and aggressive development in both technology and markets, among the most rapid of the 20^th and 21^st Centuries, and like other communication media, on the one hand video games have generated much concern about possible negative impacts on society, and on the other hand, they have created great enthusiasm regarding possible benefits for education.