The 2025 Ellis Island Medals of Honor

Role: Producer, Post Producer, Editor

The Ellis Island Honors Society wanted to refresh their brand’s video presence on social, which required a re-think around the current strategy and the delicate task of producing fresh content for a brand with 38 years of precedence. The Ellis Island Medals of Honor rank among America’s most prestigious awards with notable past honorees such as Muhammad Ali, Rosa Parks, Malala Yousafzai, and a total of eight US Presidents. The show includes a roughly 3 hour program on Ellis Island with speeches, presentations for honorees, and entertainment before concluding with a fireworks show in New York harbor.

Scope Breakdown

As the Producer on this project, I was responsible for budgeting and responding to the RFP as well as pitching our creative strategy directly to the client.

Once awarded the work, my role moved to focus on the overall creative development of the project in close collaboration with an Associate Producer that worked hand-in-hand with me to advance this project. We coordinated with the event production team as well as the client to ensure we were on scope, on budget, and prepared for our content capture. The full scope included:

  • Creative Development

  • Permitting and Coordination to Film at a National Park

  • Budgeting

  • Schedule and logistics

  • Storyboarding and shot lists

  • Staffing / Crew

  • Production

  • Post-Production

  • Color Correction/Color Grading

  • Transcribing & Captioning

  • 26 Video Deliveries in Vertical & Horizontal in Total

  • 2-Week Turnaround

  • 4TB of Content in Total (B-Roll & Show Records)

Post-Producer

Post-Producer

Editor

Client - Ellis Island Honors Society
Agency - TAIT

Producer: Dom McGee
Associate Producer: Louise Bartolotta
Gimbal Operator / A-Cam: Emeline Lotherington
B-Cam: Eric Foster
C-Cam: Owen Byrne
D-Cam - Cameron Rice
DIT - Jared Snipe
Production Assistant - Kelly Regan
Editors: Dom McGee, Louise Bartolotta