Every time I take this trip I hear the Beatle’s “Long and Winding Road” in my head…I feel like I’m slaloming on the highway of life, maybe in one of those sexy, expensive sports sedan commercials. It’s that sense of exhilaration, being surrounded by the incredible natural beauty of the cliffs and Delaware River below, [...]
My work often takes to me to some interesting places – clean rooms, spinal surgeries, landfills – you name it, we travel and shoot it. And every so often, I am fortunate enough to go to “bucket” list places like the Great Wall, and here, the Panama Canal. What a sad but inspiring story of [...]
Sometimes you don’t shoot anything to create a video. Sophisticated motion graphics software allows us to create and manipulate objects as an alternative to traditional live action. We recently animated a 13 episode series entirely with flat artwork that came to life in a fun, quirky way for a brand that epitomizes “normal is boring.” [...]
There’s a term in our business called the “Golden (or Magic) Hour” – the period just before sunrise or sunset - you’ve seen it a million times, but perhaps didn’t know that in addition to being beautiful to look at, it provides cinematographers with what’s considered the optimal light to shoot in. There are many [...]
This photo doesn’t begin to do justice to the amazing place that we are so fortunate to have as a national park, Glacier. A photographer and I who both own two small dogs did a six thousand mile road trip from Florida to Montana we dubbed, “Two Girls, Two Dogs, Two National Parks” – and [...]
With clients requiring deliverables in multiple formats for multiple platforms, it’s more important than ever to determine both acquisition and deliverable requirements at the beginning of a project (pre-production)…http://www.tvtechnology.com/news/0002/preparing-the-digital-workflow-path/270065
A glimpse behind the scenes of location shoot at Bergen County, NJ dealership – shooting for a seven part Financial Services web video series. Coordinating a shoot this size requires a great deal of organization…multiple locations, 10 actors, 12 person crew, clients, agency teams on-set…just planning lunch is an adventure. Questions like where can everyone [...]
