When I purchased an iPad a few months after the first generation was released, I honestly didn't know how I would actually use it. Like many at the time, I just considered it an expensive hi-tech toy for Daddy. Within about 2 weeks though, it became an all-purpose indispensable tool that I emp...read more
I've weighed in on both sides of the DSLR debate in my last two posts and moreso than many other things I've discussed in the realm of filmmaking this seems to be a hot-button issue with many people judging from the all comments I've gotten here and on Facebook. DSLR camera's seem to be something ...read more
(Pictured above: Panasonic Lumix GH2) The following post is excerpted from the Image Control chapter of my brand-new book, The Shut Up and Shoot Freelance Video Guide which is now shipping. (Please feel free to order a signed 400-page, 700-illustration, full-color copy directly from me here to hel...read more
The following post is excerpted from the Image Control chapter of my brand-new book, The Shut Up and Shoot Freelance Video Guide which is now shipping. Intro I think there are equally compelling arguments both for and against shooting video on DSLR cameras. (DSLR = Digital Single Lens Reflex) I’ll...read more
On this final Double Down Film Show of the Fall 2011 semester we rap with comedian Issa Rae, who is the Writer/Director and Star of the popular web series, Awkward Black Girl. Issa’s series chronicles the comedic everyday social misadventures of a young woman that doesn’t quite fit in...anywhere...read more
I grew up in Madonna's hey day, so feel like I've seen alot of what Lady Gaga's done already in one form or another. Which is not to say that I don't think she's a brilliant entertainer in her own right, just that she's following in the well-worn footsteps of the original pop music shock queen, Ma...read more
Big up this week to Terance Nance, another former student who once worked with me at the Production Center at NYU. His genre-bending film, An Oversimplification of Her Beauty was just selected for the out of competition New Frontiers Sundance screenings that are described as consisting of: "work t...read more