Reading Time: 7 minutes Wouldn’t it be cool to make a travel film like the one below. It may look impressive, and that’s because it is, it really is, but it is also very achievable if you have the patience to learn and the drive to get out there. To help you on your way to making your incredible
Reading Time: 4 minutes For most crew members, driving is an essential part of working in film and TV. When the hours are unsociable and the locations remote, you can’t rely on public transport. So it’s important to have a valid driving licence and vehicle to get you to and from work. Even departments that are primarily office based,
Reading Time: 6 minutes Looking for a new professional drone to add to your kit? Aerial work is almost a necessity now for the modern day filmmaker. However it can be hard knowing where to start and how much to invest. With this in mind we have decided to review the top 5 best professional drones for under £1000.
Reading Time: 4 minutes Cameras are exciting, which is why we spend all our money on them, but unfortunately it’s only once you’ve depleted your bank account you realise you should have bought some lights too… Video lighting isn’t cheap, good lighting anyway; Quasar, Aputure, Kino, they will all set you back a couple of hundred easily. But there
Reading Time: 5 minutes Filmmaking is expensive, we know this, but we don’t realise until we’ve spent the same amount of money on gear as we would on a mortgage just how expensive a career choice it is…we’ve all thought ‘wouldn’t it be nice to be a writer, I’ll just buy pens and paper’. But unfortunately, the love of
Reading Time: 4 minutes It doesn’t matter whether you are a corporate, narrative or documentary filmmaker, knowing how to shoot for the edit is a vital skill in streamlining your work process and saving your hair from falling out. Storytelling is most prominent in editing; the ability to pull a narrative together or draw out emotion comes mainly through
Reading Time: 4 minutes As a videographer, you will undoubtedly at some point in your career, be required to film an interview. Talking-heads, vox pops, testimonials et al. are bread and butter to any corporate and commercial filmmaker. More often than not, however, the subject will be a person unfamiliar with being on camera. Below are my top five
Reading Time: 4 minutes One of the key factors separating poor quality video content and professional-looking film is the difference made by lighting. A well composed frame can be totally transformed by a well placed catch light in your subject’s eyes, or by placing a practical light source in the background to fill out shadows and add depth to
Reading Time: 3 minutes Recently, the UK government announced plans for a drone register to come in to place at an as-yet-undisclosed point in the foreseeable future. We don’t yet know when, or what getting registered will entail, but with the increasing popularity of the flying machines, it is important that any drone pilot is up to date on
Reading Time: 3 minutes Buying your first swappable-lens-system camera is an expensive enough decision without factoring in the cost of a good set of glass. Then come the next head scratchers; primes or zooms? Stills lenses or film lenses? And do you really have to buy them from the same manufacturer as your camera? One method of building up
