PATRICK BURKE - cameraman | editor | director ... in Los Angeles
I'm a freelance Camera Operator for NBC-Universal's Last Call with Carson Daly, which is on hiatus for the summer. I just finished shooting six live Incubus concerts with the Sony PDW-F800 for SimplyNew Studios. The shows were broadcast on Livestream.com, and will air on MTV and FUSE. Before that, I was travelling as a DP/Operator on an American Express & Facebook's Big Break competition for small businesses. I've also been shooting and editing for StyleSpotting TV, RxPrep, and Daniel Weintraub's California policy website, HealthyCal.org, among others.
The backstory is that I concentrated in Film and Cognitive Science at Hampshire College. Cinematography and optical printing were my specialties. My thesis project, S.S.R.I, a 16MM narrative about anxiety and pharmaceuticals, was in the 1999 Boston Film Festival. After college, I moved to LA and spent several years as an AC and Camera Operator. Feeling politically motivated, I also hosted a NewsRock show on killradio.org. After 9/11, I interned at WBUR-FM in Boston, volunteered at KPCC-FM in Pasadena, and started filing national stories with Free Speech Radio News. KPFK, 90.7-FM Los Angeles, hired me as News Editor in May 2003. I turned that ship around and held it steady for the next five and a half years. I was News Producer for two years and News Director for two more. Highlights, including my interview with Benazir Bhutto, are on the Radio page. While still at the station, I shot, directed, and edited content for Current TV. Then, after the '08 presidential election, I took a buyout and returned to video. TMI?
Here's my resume.
And here's my latest reel.
My kit incudes a Canon 7D, a 50mm Nikon, 64 GB in cards, 2 batteries, an Ikan LED, a Joby GorillaPod Focus that I use as a handheld stabilizer, a Manfrotto 501 fluid head tripod, a Manfrotto monopod, an Olympus LS-10, a Sennheiser wireless, a Rode shotgun, and a Panasonic DVX100A.
