https://youtu.be/bbfQ6jXE5k0 I have five hours of footage (300 minutes) spanning seven tapes that I must now whittle down into one amazing seven minute documentary. It's definitely intimidating. I think it's worse than trying to find a needle in a haystack because I...
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Documentary Tools 2.0
I'm a big Web 2.0 fan, so I unsurprisingly relied heavily on various tools to aid in research, notetaking, and organization to manage filmming the Cubicle Documentary. Here's a list of some of the tools that greatly helped me out, and others that I tried but didn't...
On the Road Again
Some back story: So the other two members in the Doc group are focusing on the Patriot Guard and Celebrity Impersonators, while I'm doing Cubicles. The Patriot Guard is a group of motorcyclists that go to the funerals of Iraq soldiers per the family's request to...
BattleBots and South Beach
It's been a while and I'm sorry, but here's where my life in the real world is at: I'm officially done with Film School and FSU, got my diploma and everything. It was a weird last semester because I was editing and doing pick-ups for UnderCover and finishing You 2.0,...
Retirement Communities and Evangelical Churches for the NY Times
Earlier this year I co-produced two video pieces for the New York Times. The first was on retirement communities in South Florida that are seeing an increase in baby boomers moving in but were still working. They didn't want to retire, it was just a good real estate...
5 Examples to Turn Photos to Movies that are Not the Ken Burns Effect
While not usually a problem for fiction films (unless it's a stylistic choice), most documentaries find the only visual media available for some parts of the film are still photos. The most common method that comes to mind to add movement to still photos is the Ken...
Shooting with the Sony FS700 & R5 4K Recorder in Haiti – Video Update
We finally got most of the gear up and running and kicked it up a notch to start filming the machete fighters in slow motion on a steadicam. To break down the setup, we've got the Sony FS700 (left) owned by DP Richard Patterson. This camera was released with a future...
Learn How to Conduct Video & Podcast Interviews with Our Online Course
Conducting great interviews, ones that elicit insightful information and engaging stories, are key to any captivating documentary or podcast. Over on Skillshare we have a course on doing just that.
Adobe Morph Cut vs Avid Fluid Morph – Jump Cut Test
Adobe Premiere 2015 just added a new feature to stitch together jump cuts. But is it as good as Avid’s Fluid Morph? I run a side by side comparison to find out.