Working on “The Incredible Dr. Pol” is an adrenaline rush. At its heart, it is a show about medical emergencies…so every day, time is of the essence, and life is on the line. Our TV crew finds ourselves chasing a 70-year-old at 80 mph on back roads in Michigan, hopping into pens with angry bulls […]
Behind the scenes of filming B-Roll for The Incredible Dr. Pol. it gets pretty intense! I recently got an iPhone 6 with the new version iMovie included. iMovie comes with a bunch of templates to make cheesy movie trailers, complete with music and titles…you just have to drop in the clips. I used the “Action” […]
On my first day on the job for “The Incredible Dr. Pol,” Charles Pol handed me a packet with a list of common farm animals that they see at the clinic. “Read this over, my dad takes this pretty seriously.” I looked down to find a photo of an angry-looking bull, with a caption: “BEEF […]
A lot of people have asked me how much footage we shoot to make an episode of “The Incredible Dr. Pol,” and the answer I typically give them is: A LOT. Pol Veterinary Services is a real clinic, and there are often as many 100 cases a day, plus as many as seven or eight […]
…in which Dr. Pol teaches me how to rectally pregnancy check a dairy cow! NatGeo Wild recently posted this behind-the-scenes video from The Incredible Dr. Pol, where Doc and Charles teach a few of us crew members the art of sticking your entire arm into the rectum of a cow, in order to see how […]
I recently took a job as a Field Producer on NatGeo Wild’s veterinarian series “The Incredible Dr. Pol,” and one of our very first shoots this season — in the middle of February, in icy cold Michigan — was at the Mount Pleasant Polar Plunge. This is an annual fundraiser for the Special Olympics, where […]
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I'm a documentary Producer / Director, and a storyteller at heart. I've worked in non-fiction television and film since 2006, and I would like to work with you!
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