2024 Reality & Documentary Reel

A reel of the reality and documentary work Jason R. Johnston of Fifty Oars Motion Pictures has worked on as director of photography / lead cam op, gaffer / lighting director, and sound mixer / recordist for the BTS footage, B-roll, and interview sequences shown.

https://vimeo.com/1059874806
The 2024 Reality & Documentary Reel features an excerpt from Steven Curtis Chapman: The Great Adventure, the 2024 Dove Award-winner for Best Long-form Video.

Both concert videos — Steven Curtis Chapman: The Great Adventure and My Story, Your Glory with Matthew West — are peppered with BTS and interview segments filmed by me, and produced by Elizabeth Suter of Trinity Broadcasting Network. The excerpts that follow are of various other recent short-form documentaries, featurettes, and vignettes, as an example of my capabilities as a producer of reality content, in both the documentary and editorial styles of photojournalism. I was the director of photography / lead cam op, gaffer / lighting director, and sound mixer / recordist for the BTS footage, B-roll, and interview sequences of each excerpt. Fifty Oars, my full-service production company, provided camera, lighting, and sound equipment for each of these projects in various degrees. Fifty Oars also handles post-production services such as editing, sound, and color for projects it produces.

Full Length Examples

South Texas ISD (2016)

https://vimeo.com/1054660986

Legacy Partners (2024)

Holy Presents (2017)

La Posada (2018)