ELIJAH (ELI) JORDAN
Locust Grove,GA
Summary
Dynamic photographer/producer with thirty years of proven skills in shooting, editing, and lighting, earning two craft Emmys for lighting. Experienced with ENG and full-frame media, lighting live shots and intervierws, solo field producing and conducting interviews, consistently delivering well lit, composed, impactful and emotional stories under challenging circumstances.
Overview
16
16
years of professional experience
Work History
Photographer/Producer
WAGA FOX 5
Atlanta, Georgia
10.2009 - Current
- Shoot, field-produce, edit daily franchise for the medical team. Often shooting solo, setting up multi-point lighting, monitoring audio and conducting the interviews. Handling difficult subjects of grief, sorrow and the difficulties of personal medical challeges.
- Solo DP of multi-camera/lighting major political interviews with main anchor in the field. Often utilizing full-frame mirrorless cameras and prime lenses for wide two shots and alternate head shots of interviews.
- Covering Atlanta protests, working with bodyguards and assisting Charlotte, NC market with live, walking riot coverage.
- DP of University of Georgia football national championship celebrations in Athens, GA. Multi-camera/lighting with main anchors in the field. Also utilized personal steady-cam/gimbal with full-frame camera for fun crowd shots during live broadcast.
- Solo DP of morning/live coverage of World Series from first base line with main morning anchors.
- Extensive weather coverage of hurricanes, winter weather, tornados, and floods.
- Solo shot and produced twenty long-form (6-12 minutes), natural sound stories for streaming, experimenting by using full-frame cameras, entirely for some stories.
- On-camera photojournalist/MMJ for Fox Local streamimg platform, utilizing LiveU unit with full-frame camera on mono-pod while interviewing and reporting, live.
Education
PHOTOJOURNALSIT
WBRC FOX 6
Birmingham, ALHigh School Diploma -
Bradshaw High
Florence, AL06-1992
Some College (No Degree) - Electro-optics
Shoals Community College
Muscle Shoals, ALSkills
- Winning the story
- Shooting/Editing/Lighting
- Field producing
- Conducting interviews
- Utilizing new equipment and gadgets to enhance production
- Confidence and experience to solo cover a story and provide complete information for arriving reporter and producer
Accomplishments
Three South Eastern Emmy Awards for Weather and Health coverage
Timeline
Photographer/Producer
WAGA FOX 5
10.2009 - Current
PHOTOJOURNALSIT
WBRC FOX 6
High School Diploma -
Bradshaw High
Some College (No Degree) - Electro-optics
Shoals Community College