Good production people, many of you have lamented that you'd like to take a filmmaking class or seminar with me, but moving to New York and attending NYU's Tisch School of the Arts for 4 years isn't exactly convenient for you with your day job, family life and house in another city and all. Well, ...read more
Documentary and Corporate Video peeps check out my latest course on lynda.com "Video Interview Techniques". This is a full 2 hour course on all the technical, practical and logistical aspects of shooting and conducting interviews on camera. In this course I share with you many tips that I personal...read more
Down and Dirty filmmaking is not so much a set of specific filmmaking tactics or techniques, but rather a 24/7 mindset that should permeate every aspect of your filmmaking if you have limited resources. (And let's be real, almost all of us have limited resources.) One of the guerrilla concepts I ...read more
Just wanna drop a quick tip that my home people over at the Beneathearth Film Festival are offering a free panel tomorrow Weds. August 8th in New York City at the Wix Lounge. Among the team of expert panelists doling out filmmaking strategies and wisdom for free is my colleague, Chris Chan Roberso...read more
A week or so ago I dropped a free chapter of my new Lynda.com course Fundamentals of Video: Cameras and Shooting. Well today, courtesy of my ultra coolass peeps at Lynda.com I'm gonna drop the whole 3-hour course on you and all ya peeps completely for FREE. That's right - the whole damn thang! ...read more
Earlier this year I put out my first ever online Video Camera Buyer's Guide to help you sift through some of the most popular and well-reviewed prosumer and pro video cameras. While that guide provides a great overview of what's out there, it may not necessarily help you figure out what type of vide...read more
It's been a long minute since I've last put up a blog post, so wanted to come back with a bang. I mentioned awhile back that I would have some big news in the realm of film education and I can now officially share that news- which is my brand-spanking new video course on Lynda.com entitl...read more
...I know it's been a minute or two since I've last put up a new blog post. Been very busy with an exciting new project that I will announce later, but know that it involves LOTS more no-nonsense film instruction for the masses. So stay tuned for that BIG announcement in coming weeks. In the m...read more
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