Something really amazing is about to happen – in just a few hours the pilot episode of the Chronicles of EMS will be broadcast to a live audience at the Hotel Frank in San Francisco and for an online audience around the world.

I really want you to watch the Chronicles. Watch the premiere party from 4pm to 7pm Pacific Time and the episode at 5 pm PST 2/12/2010.

React to the Chronicles of EMS.

Share with the Chronicles of EMS.

Engage with EMS professionals and supports from around the world.

EMS needs you to be a leader. Be a part of the Chronicles of EMS.

As you read this on 2/12 I am in San Francisco for the premiere party with more than 50 EMS professionals and supporters from around the world. I am sure I will be tweeting during the event so look for my updates and photos at Twitter.com/gfriese.

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Ted Setla is a filmmaker (Setla Films) and paramedic. He is passionate about EMS professionals use video to inform and entertain. I first connected with Ted after watching his film Level Zero-the documentary film about Alameda County EMS. I am now supporting his efforts to create the Chronicles of EMS series about paramedic and paramedic systems around the world.

As a professional filmmaker Ted sometimes (maybe every time?) cringes at the videos I record and publish with my Flip Camcorder*. Nonetheless he is always supportive and giving me suggestions to improve and enhance the videos with better techniques and production equipment. Ted’s comments to me generally are around these themes:

1. Good lighting.

2. Good audio. Ted writes “Add a boom microphone and place it just out of the frame.”

3. Good composition. Ted writes, “Frame yourself with a little less headroom at the top and this will change everything about your video.”

Recently Ted sent me a list of equipment to improve the quality of audio I capture with my videos. This is his list with links to products.

• Record the audio with the Zoom H4 Handy Recorder*
• Boom microphone
• c-stand
• boom pole
• Mic Shock Mount
• XLR Cable

* this link is an Amazon affiliate link.

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Level Zero is a documentary movie about EMS in Alamdea County, California from film director and paramedic Thaddeus Setla. In the movie the EMTs, Paramedics, and firefighters essentially answer the question why are you a paramedic and what do you do. Along the way you learn that through their words and actions these people want to help and serve their community. (the password to play the video is “levelzero”)

LEVEL ZERO – The Movie from Thaddeus Setla on Vimeo.

Lucidna Rinaldo, AMR Paramedic says it especially well, as a paramedic “you get to be a witness to good and bad.”

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