A few weeks ago the Grammatico family of Michigan reached out to me to share their filmmaking experience with my Shut Up and Shoot series of filmmaking guide books. I was so impressed with the story and work of 14-year old filmmaker Cruce Grammatico that he inspired me to start a new case-study bl...read more
A few weeks ago I received a very nice thank you letter from Deborah Grammatico, who has been using my Shut Up and Shoot filmmaking guides to help her son, Cruce, learn filmmaking. Since I first published The Shut Up and Shoot Documentary Guide in 2007, I've received many such letters from all ...read more
As you know, I've been exploring the blossoming new world of cellphone cinema on this blog lately and have discovered many cool new hardware and software tools that make cell phone cinema something to be taken seriously. Well, add to the list this unique little tool called Galileo that ups the c...read more
So everyone has their list of all-time favorite movies that usually include a number of mainstream titles that most of us have likely seen already. So I wanted to do a twist on that and compile a list of my favorite unique and worthy films that many of you may have never seen or in some cases eve...read more
In the latest review of The Shut Up and Shoot Freelance Video Guide, The Studio Daily Blog, the people behind Film & Video, Studio Monthly and FilmFest websites declare it to to be: "... a straightforward, densely packed compendium of wisdom on video production...here’s a book br...read more
The thing I've always loved most about living and working in and around New York City is that you can always experience something new. Case in point - the renegade performance artist group Improv Everywhere's Star Wars Subway Car guerrilla performance, which is just one of many such performances ...read more
So in my continued exploration of the world of cellphone cinema, I've actually become quite intrigued with all the amazing things that you can now do just on your cellphone. Check out the beautiful and amazing tilt-shift time-lapse video below, City of Samba, by Jarbas Agnelli and Keith Loutit (wh...read more
So for the past few weeks I've been researching and dibble-dabbling in the world of cellphone cinema which is rapidly maturing and in my opinion becoming something to take seriously. To that end, I put out a 2012 iPhone Cellphone Cinema Tool Guide featuring mounts, dollies, add-ons and other tools...read more