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DAN BECKMANN • PARTNER/DIRECTOR OF PHOTOGRAPHY ORLANDO, FLORIDA – CAMERA CREW RESUME
Dan Beckmann is not only our Orlando based DP, but is also a partner with Go To Team. As a former staff editor, cameraman and producer for NBC News in the Tel Aviv bureau, Dan helped cover the continuation of the Middle East peace process for the Today Show, CNBC, Nightly News, MSNBC and Dateline.

His travels have taken him throughout the Middle East, Europe and Africa. Along the way, Dan learned to speak Arabic, Hebrew and Italian. In addition to covering high profiled news stories, including – 9-11 coverage from Ground Zero, four Super Bowls, the Iraq War, Air Force One with Tom Brokaw, the Olympics in Torino, and Barack Obama’s presidential campaign with Brian Williams – Dan also delivers a wide array of marketing and entertainment-related product.

He traveled to Helsinki, Finland, to join the launch team of the world’s largest cruise ship – Royal Caribbean’s Oasis of the Seas – where he captured daily “webisode” stories chronicling the 7,000 mile journey across the Atlantic Ocean to its new home port in Florida. Dan has also tackled other assignments that have garnered world-wide attention: The grand opening of the Atlantis Resort in Dubai, on the Palm Jumeirah Island in the United Arab of Emirates – episodic television for A&E TV – and behind the scenes EPK’s on the set of feature films with stars, such as, John Travolta and Samuel L. Jackson, as well as national commercials with Tiger Woods.

As an accomplished Director of Photography, Dan also shoots commercials, international documentaries, SMT’s, VNR’s, training and teaching videos, EPK’s, corporate videos and concerts. The A-List of musicians Dan has worked with covers some of the biggest names in the industry: Tony Bennett, Aretha Franklin, Natalie Cole, Barbara Streisand, Janet Jackson, Earth Wind and Fire, The Spinners, and Stevie Wonder, to name a few. Dan also traveled on the road with Aerosmith for their “Honkin’ on Bobo” tour in 2004.

Orlando Offices – 3 Edit Suites with 24/7 Fiber Uplink:

Dan is based in Orlando, Florida – managing 4 offices (2 HD Final Cut Pro Suites and 1 AVID Adrenaline Media Composer Edit Bay) on the back lot of Universal Studios Florida. Being in central Florida allows us to cover Jacksonville up north, Tampa, St. Pete and Clearwater in the west and Miami and the Keys down south – and he’s only an hour away from Daytona and Cape Canaveral. Our dedicated fiber line also gives us opportunities to feed footage or live shots anywhere in the world – anytime –day or night!

Still Captures:

Lighting Samples:

Recent Satisfied Clients Include:

A & E Television
Fremantle Media
The Today Show
The History Channel
Discovery Channel
Nightly News with Brian Williams – MSNBC – Dateline NBC
The MAAC
Guggenheim Productions
Universal Studios Florida
Walt Disney World
Walt Disney Cruise Lines
Talking Pictures Media
ESPN
Real Estate Channel
Broadcast Services, Inc.
Dream Factory Productions
Verocity Creative
CNN
Interactivity Creative
Dream Balloon
ABC News

Equipment List:

Standard: 1 Sony F900 HDCam, 1 Panasonic Varicam with Sony HD field monitor. 1 HLV55 Ikegami Beta SP camera w/ High Definition Canon lens, 1 HDX-900 camera, Sachtler tripod, multiple Arri light heads with Chimeras, 442 4 channel audio mixer with multiple Lectrosonic wireless microphones, wireless transmitters and portable wireless IFB units. Boom w/ Sennheiser shotgun mic, & audiocassette recorder with live transcription and time code transcription capability. We also have 2 HVR Z1U 1080i HDV cameras with wireless units and tripods.

Extra Items: Extra Items: 200W and 400W K5600 HMI’s – Panasonic DVCPro HD Deck – Beta SP 1800 Deck – HDV M25U deck – DSR 11 and DSR 25 Mini DV decks – Canon 9X5.2 HD wide angle lenses – Litepanel kits.

Education:

C of C – College of Charleston/Charleston, South Carolina – English/History
UNCC – University of North Carolina, Charlotte – History

Awards:

Graduate of the NPPA Workshop (National Press Photographer’s Association) 1996

Recognized by the National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences (Emmy) for Outstanding Journalism Coverage of 9-11 and its aftermath for NBC News 2002

National Telly Award (Bronze) Commercial with Priority Marketing and Verocity Creative 2007

Biography:

Dan grew up in St. Louis, Missouri, and spent his youth traveling the United States. He served in the US Navy as a medical corpsman, was stationed with the US Marine Corps, and served during the first Gulf War.

Dan first worked as a cameraman at WCIV TV in Charleston, South Carolina. At the same time, was the on-air evening talent and acting music director at WSSX radio. Within two years, he was hired as a cameraman at WSOC TV in Charlotte. Later, Dan moved across the street to WBTV as a cameraman, writer, and producer for their early show. A year later, he and his family moved to Tel Aviv, Israel, to work for the Today Show.

Once back in the United States, Dan started his own production company, Roycom Communications (merged with Go To Team in 2009). While still maintaining ties with NBC News, Dan compiled a list of dozens of commercial clients – shooting, editing, writing and producing everything from news and corporate pieces to international documentaries and commercials.

Currently, Dan lives in Orlando, Florida, with his daughter, Lauren, and wife, Sue Stauffer – a producer and writer for Go To Team and various other clients.

For more information on shooting in Orlando, Florida, check out the Go To Team web site.