Surgery video is actually a field in itself. I worked for a time at the University of Mississippi Medical Center in Jackson, which had an entire office dedicated to taping surgeries. This assignment was low budget compared to that, but it was interesting.

The real trick to this video was being able to be where I needed to be in the room to get each shot for my sequence. I tried to talk to the nurses in the beginning so I would know what would happen during the surgery, but in the end, I just had to feel it, as they say. I guess I lucked out because it turned out alright. I also managed to get my human story to bookend the ghastly eyeball video.

Speaking of that, nearly everyone at the paper asked me to change the screen shot image for the video on the front of the site. Something about the eyeball with clamps on the lids evoked “A Clockwork Orange” for them. I left it. To me, an eye-catching image gets clicks.

The surgeon Dr. McCaa was actually so pleased with the video that she asked me to freelance some video that she could use at speaking events.

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Tiffany Taylor gets surgery to mend her nearsightedness with an improved LASIK procedure.