THE NATURE OF THINGS: Alternative Guide to Climate Change

Earlier this year, CBC’s The Nature of Things got in touch to work on a new series they are creating which is about alternative ways in which people can do everyday simple things to help combat climate change. Due to COVID 19 their regular production team could not travel to Whitehorse so they needed a team on the ground to help them shoot a part of an episode in which broken cell phones would be repaired by a class of high school students. So I was brought on as Field Director and Cinematographer. There was a lot going on: we had a tech expert Zoom in from California to walk the students through the repair; we did to camera interviews with the students & teacher about their experiences with the workshop; a number of sequences where the teacher is setting up the classroom; and of course the students working through the repair itself while asking the tech expert “how to” questions; as well as some establishers of the school and the city of Whitehorse. Here are a few grabs. The episode should be released shortly.