Author: Jon Groat
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Men\’s Health: NY Fashion Week: Spring/Summer 2013
I was hired to cover two fashion presentations and create two person-on-the-street videos by Men\’s Health during Spring/Summer 2013 Fashion Week . The project consisted of me shooting backstage interviews at Nautica and Todd Snyder as well as b-roll from the shows and stitching the two together. I had both cuts edited for review the…
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New York\’s The Cut Fashion Documentary
I shot parts of a Web doc that followed the fashion designers behind the label Ohne Titel for five months. Spencer Mandell produced with Ben Poster also shooting and editing. Check out the trailer here.
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The Daily Beast\’s \”My New York\”
I produced, shot and edited this as part of an ongoing Daily Beast series, \”My New York\”, after the Newsweek/Daily Beast merger. The series profiled prominent NYC residents in their favorite city spots, and aired on NYCTV25 as well as taxi cabs. Client: The Daily Beast Role: Producer, Camera, Editor Run Time: 2:30
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\”The District\”
I supervised a series of videos after Obama\’s inauguration that compared his first days in office to the MTV reality shows “The Hills” and “The City.” Newsweek producer Sarah Frank was responsible for the genius idea and execution. I greenlit it, edited the script and oversaw the production, making the suggestion we find an Obama…
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Newsweek\’s Annual Oscar and Emmy Roundtables
An editor came over to me with a DVD and said take a 1-minute clip of this for Web. She had handed me a three-hour conversation of some of Hollywood’s brightest stars and Oscar nominees in conversation with Newsweek’s top film editor, folks like George Clooney, Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie. I recognized the potential…
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\”7 Things\”
In 2008 I launched a weekly entertainment series with Newsweek’s culture reporters based on the idea \”7 Things We Don\’t Know About …\”. I originally stylized the series with Edison light bulbs and, after moving to a new headquarters, switched to shiny fluorescent bulbs in a nod to Newsweek’s more modern digs. While these are…
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\”Sum Total\”
Together with Newsweek business editor Arlyn Gajilan, we created an animated business series called Sum Total. “Behind every statistic, there\’s a good story: facts and figures can add up to something greater than themselves.” I pitched the idea, found the animator and then worked with Gajilan on the copy. Client: Newsweek Role: Executive Producer Run…
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National Press Club Honorable Mention: “The Mind of the South”
Newsweek sent son of the South Christopher Dickey on a roadtrip retracing Sherman\’s March to the Sea in the summer of 2008. Dickey, son of \”Deliverance\” author James Dickey, wanted to gauge whether Dixie had changed enough to vote for a Black president. The Newsweek video team produced 11 videos from the trip, each plotted…
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2008 Presidential Candidate Interviews
During the 2008 presidential campaign I filmed and edited Howard Fineman interviewing candidates Barack Obama, Mitt Romney, Ron Paul, and Mike Huckabee.
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2011 GLAAD Award Nomination: “Kicked Out but Ready to Go Back”
The Newsweek multimedia team was nominated for two GLAAD awards in 2011; one was for my 2010 video \”Kicked Out But Ready to Go Back\”. That piece looked at a soldier who had been expelled from the military under Don\’t Ask Don\’t Tell but was eagerly trying to get back into service any way she…