Are you allowed to experiment and have fun filmmaking? Every year, I leave all my professional gear at home and take a few GoPros with me for a day of fun with my dad. We have a winter tradition of going fishing together.
#1 Less Is More Fewer tools, shorter edits, simpler concepts, smaller crews and outsourcing. Last year, we got rid of jibs, time-lapse tools (intervalometer), extra lenses and bags, and downsized lighting.
As a child of the ’80s, I recall a time when having 64KB of RAM was a huge deal. Not megabytes. I’m talking about kilobytes. That’s about the size of a few text documents today.
Many of you starting out have no help and are all alone. You are the accountant, video editor, salesperson and filmmaker. You don’t have the budget to hire more staff, but you want to produce compelling videos. This article is about overcoming your fear of taking on larger video projects and creating a game plan to achieve extraordinary results.
They’re all the rage right now. Walk through any photo/video trade show this year, and you’re bound to see an excess of two things: camera-equipped drones and handheld brushless gimbal stabilizers.
The hardest video to sell, shoot and edit is the first one. Many of you have thought about video for years. You understand composition and lighting, and have mastered the art of photography, but you’ve never started your first video project.
For as long as I can remember, delivering video content has been a mixed bag of options, each containing its own limitations and drawbacks in terms of creation, packaging and delivery.
You know you need to get started with video and you passionately want to, but you don’t. You can’t use the excuse of not having the correct camera and lens.
As a freelance filmmaker, I get to travel to exciting and exotic locations, and use my skills behind the camera to help other people bring to life their ideas and visions
When you think of a technology disrupter, what comes to mind? Perhaps the smartphone eclipsing the cellphone, the iPod killing the Discman or DVD destroying VHS.
