I am the Media Manager for Deadly Waters with Captain Lee in Miami FL, a true crime drama. This is a famous murder case from 2007. It will air on Oxygen in Spring/Summer 2024.
I stayed with my sister in Ft Lauderdale, FL and her 2 boys, 3 dogs, and 2 cats.
Title
Deadly Waters with Captain Lee
Role
Project’s IMDB
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt32529956/reference/
My IMDB
https://www.imdb.com/name/nm1193155/
Production Company
Client’s Equipment
- Sony FX9
- Sony FX7
- Sony Alpha 7 III
- 3 x GoPro Hero11 Black
- Sony Card CFexpress Card Reader
- Sony 160GB CFexpress Type A TOUGH Memory Card
- TouchBar MacBook Pro
- MultiCard Read
- Portable Surge Protector
My Gear/Equipment
- 2023 MacBook Pro 16″ with M2 Pro, 32 MB RAM, 1 TB HD
- 2021 iPad Pro 12.9″ with M2 – 2nd monitor
- OWC Thunderbolt 4 Hub with 3 Thunderbolt 4 ports
- Ivanky Docking Station Pro Hub with 14 ports
- Lexar Multi-Card 25-in-1 USB 3.0 Reader
- 12 Outlet Belkin Power Strip Surge Protector
- Laptop Cooler Cooling Pad
- USB Desk Fan
- Quik Cart Collapsible Rolling Crate on Wheels
- iPhone 12
Software
Workflow
- Offload data using ShotPut Pro to 2 Glyph SSD drives
- Upload Aggregate Report from ShotPut Pro
- Log data into MicroSoft Excel Card Log and upload
- FedEx 1 SSD to Post House every day. 1 stays with Producer for run of shoot.
Type of Production
TV, true crime drama
Behind the Scenes
Below are some Behind the Scenes photos from the shoot.
me with Trevor Smith – B Camera 
Office – Hilton Miami – below office terrace 
Deadly Water with Captain Lee crew shot 
Office – Hilton Miami – lake outside office 
Office – Hilton Miami – desk 
Office – Hilton Miami – out office terrace 
Office – Hilton Miami – desk closeup 
Office – Hilton Miami – doorway 
Office – Hilton Miami – gear storage 
Office – Hilton Miami – padded case for laptop 
Office – Hilton Miami – padded case for SSDs and gear 
Office – Hilton Miami – padded case for SSDs closeup 
Office – Hilton Miami – room setup 
Office – Hilton Miami – signage 
Office – Hilton Miami – unused cards and gear 
Office #2 – House – Apple TV with fire on screen overtop desk 
Office #2 – House – Left side of desk 
Office #2 – House – Media case with SSD and cables 
Office #2 – House – Right side of desk 
Office #2 – House – SSD for shipment and to keep 
Office #3 – Coast Guard Base – conference room table 
Office #3 – Coast Guard Base – DIT setup on conference room table 
Office #3 – Coast Guard Base – entry 
Office #3 – Coast Guard Base – model ship 
Office #3 – Coast Guard Base – wall 
Coast Guard boat – side 
Coast Guard boat – front side 
Coast Guard boat – sunset 
Coast Guard boat – grill 
Coast Guard boat – speed boat 
Coast Guard boat – ahoy 
Coast Guard boat – up top 
Coast Guard boat – back 
Coast Guard boat – Captain interview
Description
I am the Media Manager for Deadly Waters with Captain Lee in Miami FL. That means I collected all the video and audio files and cloned them onto various hard drives. My job is to ensure the integrity of the data thru the Production Pipeline.
Why are true crime dramas so popular?
From podcasts to true crime documentaries to detective novels, it’s not difficult to imagine why true crime media has become so popular. Here are a few of the most popular theories.
True crime gives an insight into our culture and norms as well as our anxieties and values. Researcher and author Coltan Scrivner states the popularity of true crime, the success of horror films and the quantity of violence in the news suggests that “morbid curiosity is a common psychological trait”. It feeds our natural desire to solve puzzles and mysteries.
It also gives us an insight into why other people may act the way they do and allows us to examine the darker sides of humanity from a safe distance. We can vicariously experience extreme situations (i.e., allows us to experience physical and emotional responses from the safety of our home).
A 2010 study by the University of Illinois (Vicary and Fraley, 2010) suggests that true crime stories are particularly popular with women, which may link to their fear of being victimised.
We can therefore hypothesize that consuming content about crime may provide us with a feeling of control and knowledge about an inherently uncertain and often anxiety-provoking world. It is also worth remembering that, as humans, we are designed to pay particular attention to certain features, which helps us to learn and gather information. For example, threatening information often spreads very fast (e.g., Blaine & Boyer, 2018 as cited in Scrivner 2021). Evolutionary this makes sense as an awareness of threat can be useful to us in several ways including safety.
More examples
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