::: Equipment

Sony ::: F330

Sony F330 XDCAM HD, 16:9/4:3 High Def camera, 1080/59.94i, 50i, 29.97P, 25P and native 23.98P, NTSC or PAL, (HD, HDV, DVCAM), Skin Detail, Fujinon 17X5.5, Matte box w/filters, Sachtler Tripod, Light Kit w/2 softboxes & gels, 200W HMI, Sound Devices 302 mixer w/cables & adapters, 3 Lectrosonics wireless’ w/Tram lavalier and cube transmitter, Sony Lavalier mics, EV RE-50 Stick mic, Sennheiser shotgun w/windscreen, Ikan portable HD Monitor & Sony 8042Q Monitor, Lipstickcams, Anton Bauer Batts.

Sony ::: D35WS

Sony D35WS 16X9 Wide Screen BetacamSP camera, 850 lines of resolution, Skin Detail, Matte box w/filters, Sachtler Tripod, Lowell MiniPro Light Kit w/2 softboxes & gels, Shure FP-33 Mixer w/cables & adapters, 3 Lectrosonics wireless' w/Tram lavalier and cube transmitter, 2 Sony Lavalier mics, EV RE-50 Stick mic, Sennheiser shotgun w/windscreen, Sony 8042Q Monitor, Anton Bauer Brick Batteries & Charger.

Sony ::: Z1U

Sony Z1U 16:9 HDV & PD150 DVCAM cameras, Gitzo tripod, FP32A mixer, Audio Technica boom, lavalier mic, Sony Monitor, Amphibico u/w housings, lights and 100' underwater umbilical video cable, underwater lipstick cameras, AGA masks and OTS communication system.

Amphibico ::: Underwater Housing

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::: Awards

2009 Bronze Telly for the "Mystery Mardi Gras Shipwreck" documentary

Graduate NPPA Oklahoma Television Workshop.

First Place Region 6 RTNDA awards - ‘97, “Graveyard of the Atlantic.”

MCA-I Award of Merit ‘00, Documentary - “Assault on America - The Battle for Torpedo Junction.”

NETA-First Place ‘00, WUNC-TV, Documentary - Science & Nature, “Blackbeard’s Treasure.”

::: Clients

ABC, APTN, BBC, CBS, CNN, Coca-Cola, Coleman/Fleetwood, Discovery, E! Entertainment TV, ESPN, FOX, General Dynamics, Harpo, History Channel, 48 Hours, TLC, Travel Channel, Origin Medsystems, Real TV, SportSouth, Sprint, Turner, Reuters, NOAA, North Carolina Public TV, Visual Eyes, N.C. Underwater Archaeology Unit and more.

Video Services

Nautilus Productions provides a full service high definition video production resource. We handle all phases of video production from the simple single-camera shoot to live multi-camera remotes. We can coordinate and crew anything from auto racing, aerial photography, military exercises or commercial post production. We'll even put over 20 years of scuba diving experience to use and take you deep into the ocean.

Documentary - HD, military, science, underwater, entertainment and medical production.

Corporate - Internal and external communications, VNR's and new product promotion.

Military - Training, documentary, aerial, weapons systems, Special Forces and Airborne work.

Underwater - Sharks, shipwrecks, marine life and HD underwater stock footage

Medical - Recruiting, surgery, ER, disaster drills and product demos.

Sports - Football, basketball, golf, NASCAR and more.

Rick Allen, Executive Producer, Director, Editor - has been producing documentaries and shooting video since 1983. As a video producer, director and videographer his work has appeared on ABC, A&E, BBC, CBS, Discovery, TLC, National Geographic, 48 Hours, ESPN, Lifetime, Turner and more. He has followed SWAT teams through the door on drug busts, traveled from Cuba to Kazakhstan with the 82nd Airborne, weathered live broadcasts during hurricanes, hurricanes, gone nose to nose with 14 foot Great White sharks during underwater expeditions and is the project videographer on the Blackbeard Shipwreck Project. After 12 years in broadcast television Allen opened his own video production company in 1997 focused on documentary production as well as providing freelance videography and underwater video services to broadcast clients. Nautilus Productions has produced documentaries for National Geographic International, the Canadian History Channel, North Carolina Public Television, Texas A&M and the Minerals Management Service (US Dept. of the Interior). You can also regularly see his stock footage during Shark Week on the Discovery Channel.

In 2008 Allen completed the Mystery Mardi Gras Shipwreck documentary for Texas A&M University and the Minerals Management Service. The one hour HD documentary chronicles the mysterious sinking of a 19th century shipwreck, the deepest underwater archaeological project ever attempted in the Gulf of Mexico and the month long expedition mounted to explore, recover and conserve artifacts from the wreck site.

Since 1998, Allen has been the project videographer on the Queen Anne's Revenge Shipwreck Project. His duties include the documentation of the archaeological survey and recovery of artifacts from the wreck site. In the fall of 2000 Allen co produced with Bill Lovin of Marine Grafics a groundbreaking, weeklong live internet broadcast known as QAR LiveDive from the QAR. For the first time ever, live video and audio was broadcast from an underwater archaeological site to the World Wide Web. The twice-daily live distance learning programs reached an estimated 1600 students from as far away as Canada during the five days of broadcasting. October of 2001 Allen and Lovin again co produced DiveLive 2001. This time the interactive webcasts from the seafloor and conservation laboratories of the Queen Anne's Revenge Shipwreck Project reached over 3600 students from fifteen states and 2 countries during the five days of broadcast.

Graduate NPPA Oklahoma Television Workshop.

First Place Region 6 RTNDA awards - ‘97, “Graveyard of the Atlantic.”

MCA-I Award of Merit ‘00, Documentary - “Assault on America - The Battle for Torpedo Junction.”

NETA-First Place ‘00, WUNC-TV, Documentary - Science & Nature, “Blackbeard's Treasure.”

CLIENTS: ABC, APTN, BBC, CBS, CNN, Coca-Cola, Coleman/Fleetwood, Discovery, E! Entertainment TV, ESPN, FOX, General Dynamics, Harpo, History Channel, 48 Hours, TLC, Travel Channel, Origin Medsystems, Real TV, SportSouth, Sprint, Turner, Reuters, NOAA, North Carolina Public TV, Visual Eyes, N.C. Underwater Archaeology Unit and more.

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