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noisybrain. just created a DVD about
the Focus Enhancements FireStore FS-3,
a 24P short film using the P+S Technik
PRO35 digital adaptor and a kiosk DVD
on the story of Formatt Filters.
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DONALD BERUBE (Director of Photography)
has two decades worth of film, sound and video production experience
in the Boston market and across the globe. Don first established his love for Photography as a youth, experimenting with developing still images with a home darkroom setup. During his late teens, he and his brother Daniel helped to rebuild their High School's Photography Club, recruiting new members and introducing new students to Photography. Donald also contributed as a Yearbook photographer. Shortly after High School, Donald studied Photography at a local UNH campus and fondly remembers when his teacher would occasionally invite legendary Photographer Lotte Jacobi to class as "substitute teacher" for the day. During this time, Donald took a job at a local movie theatre working as a movie projectionist at night, while shooting
and editing video during the day for WMUR-TV Channel 9, a local ABC affiliate television
station in his hometown. A few years after, he moved to the
Boston area and studied Television Production at Emerson College and Music Production and Audio
Engineering at Berklee College of Music. During this time, Donald
worked alongside recording engineer/ producer Brett Cookingham
in the design and construction of a complete sound recording
studio in the Fort Point Channel area of Boston, working with
such artists as Jimi Randolph and Eban Kelly from
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Don on location in Los Angeles shooting "Explorer Of Light" photographer Greg Gorman taking stills with the EOS 1DS.
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Donald's film credits include Sound Design
on Rod Welles' "Peepshow", which was one of the first film
soundtracks in New England to be digitally edited and mixed
via ProTools on an Apple Macintosh and which won a Student
Academy Award in 1994; music videos for The Mighty, Mighty
Bosstones; "IronMan", an indie 35mm film starring Bernard
Fox from "Titanic"; and numerous corporate and independent
film projects in the Boston market. In 1996, Donald moved to the White
Mountains of New Hampshire and worked for Resort Sports Network,
acting as Field Cameraman (often on a pair of skiis), Editor
and Technical Director for The Mountain Report,
The Valley Show and Apres Ski Adventures. During this
time, Donald also instructed skiing and snowboarding with some of
the best PSIA instructors
in New England at Cranmore
Mountain Ski & Snowboarding Resort in North Conway Village,
NH. Donald also participated in the Mount
Washington Valley's annual "Mountain Meister" giant slalom
ski racing competition, taking 2nd Place and 1st place
in his division. |
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Don on location in Manhattan shooting "Explorer Of Light" photographer Michel Tcherevkoff taking stills with the EOS 1DS.
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Don has traveled to various locations
around the world, including Africa with
"The Visionaries" for PBS as Sound Recordist/ Assistant Cameraman.
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Moving forward with his career, Donald
traveled around the globe several times as a location Sound Recordist/ Assistant Cameraman for The Visionaries, an Emmy award-winning
Public Television documentary series airing nationwide. Donald
has also been a facet of MIT Video Productions at the Massachusetts
Institute Of Technology since 1993, working in a multitude of
video production styles, in the field and in the studio, with
BetaCam SP and DVCam formats. Some of Don's duties at MIT included Field Cameraman and Technical Director for such venues as the PBS Business Channel, the BBC Network and MIT's Media Lab, among others. Donald also helped to design a portable videoconferencing unit for MIT's Distance Learning department as well as assisted with the facilitation of full-duplex videoconferencing and streaming video equipment. He has also filmed content for
Media 100, Inc. and iCanStream.com, demonstrating
their software. Donald now divides his time as a Director Of Photography/ Producer collaborating with his brother Daniel on multiple digital video projects for noisybrain. Productions, traveling around the country for various companies such as Canon USA to demonstrate Canon's XL1S miniDV camera and Focus Enhancements to demonstrate their FireStore DTE Technology. Donald has also consulted in the past for various DV-related companies such as Tiffen, for whom Don has provided "film-look" filtration demonstrations at various venues such as the 2002 LA DV Show and also at the Tiffen Tech Center in Burbank, California.
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Don Berube on location on Pismo Beach
in Los Osos, California for CANON USA.
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Donald's most recent project was collaborating with his brother Daniel and noisybrain. associate Writer/ Director Paul Michaels on a 24P DV short entitled "Full Service", which was recently shown at the 2003 LA DV Film Festival in Los Angeles. Donald and Daniel are again collaborating with Paul to produce an interactive DVD for Focus Enhancements on the FireStore FS-3 DTE Disk Recorder. Donald and Daniel are also collaborating with Boston Camera Rental to produce a 24P short film using the new P+S Technik PRO35 Digital Adaptor. Another upcoming noisybrain. collaborative project includes an interactive DVD on the story of Formatt Filters for Bogen Photo USA. Donald also recently traveled around the US with his brother Daniel to produce, shoot, edit and encode over 70 video segments for Canon USA's "Digital Workflow" CD-ROM, (click here for more info and free copy) a Flash-based interactive CD-ROM which details the Digital Workflow of eleven of Canon's prominent "Explorers Of Light" digital photographers such as Greg Gorman, George Lepp, Barbara Bordnick, Michel Tcherevkoff, James Nachtwey, Rod Evans, Dennis Reggie, Stephen Wilkes, Seth Resnick, Rick Billings and Scott Alexander. Some past projects include "Exclusive",
a 5-minute DV short sponsored by Canon USA and various
third-party vendors (Century Precision Optics, Manfrotto and
Tiffen to name a few);
"Bosko", a documentary short on Polynesian culture produced
in collaboration with Temple Dog Productions for San
Diego's Annual Tiki Symposium and for KPBS-TV San Diego, CA;
"In the Room with Jim", an inspiring documentary on
Jim Infantino, a popular Progressive Folk Rock musician, poet
and award-winning Flash/ Shockwave artist; "Poetry Slam",
a perspective on the 2000 National SlamAmerica Poetry Tour
Finals and the emergence of poetry artists in the New
England area; and several long-form documentaries which he
is lending his camera and lighting skills, utilizing DVCAM, DVCPRO50 and HDTV cameras.
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