Austin Smoak

I've worked as both a 1st and 2nd AC on a variety of Condé Nast digital content from travel and lifestyle to cooking shows and branded. My responsibilities included prepping cameras, pulling focus and running the camera teams.

For this series, I help cover human interest stories all over the United States. I've helped producers tell the stories of doomsday preppers, reformed members of the KKK, Santa Camp and everything in between. One story even required me to shoot 60% of it from a kayak.

As one of the Camera Assistants for several skits for the Seth Meyers show, I was in charge of prepping, setting up and maintaining the cameras throughout the shoot days.

I was Director of Photography on this branded content piece for Ancestry.com's holiday campaign. I worked with the director to help tell the story in a dynamic but natural way. I oversaw the lighting department as well as a two camera setup during the shoot.

For this video, shot on 16mm Film- I ran the camera team, setup camera and pulled focus.

The director and I traveled to the UK to capture the story of a photographer and her wife who live in their RV. I met the challenge of finding visuals that would tell the story and represent the product well- all while on the road.

For this four video campaign, I traveled around the country to capture the stories of people making use of the Straight Talk Wireless network in their everyday lives and businesses.

For this shoot, I helped the camera operators cover a variety of B-Roll and interviews for this documentary. During the roundtable discussion at the center of the piece- I operated C-Camera.