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
(Above: Scene from Dee Reese's Pariah as "painted" by D.P., Bradford Young) This week while teaching interview lighting techniques to the documentary classes at NYU I began discussing the use of color as yet another element of storytelling and thought I would extend that conversation to this blog, b...read more
The Digital Hippo website just posted the first in-depth review of The Shut Up and Shoot Freelance Video Guide and I couldn't be more pleased. Not just because it's a good review, but moreso because the review cited all the things I was really struggling to get right in crafting the content, tone ...read more
This is the first batch in a series of Double7Images signature BioCasts that we were commissioned to create for the fabled Film and TV Program at Tisch School of the Arts at NYU, alma mater to the likes of Spike Lee, Martin Scorsese, Todd Phillips, Oliver Stone and many more. The objective was to c...read more
It’s all about Production Workflow on this episode of the Double Down Film Show. In another one our special "keynote addresses", we’re going to walk you through all the physical steps of production from load-in to returning the equipment. We'll share with you all of our insights, practical tip...read more
Wondering what type of practical real-world info is in the Indie Film Boot Camp 6-DVD Set? Ask no more, here's a sneak peek: Description: What good is a great idea if it never gets off the page? Raising money is the hardest part of filmmaking at every level, nevertheless, we all leave re...read more
A few week's back, I mentioned that South Park and Book of Mormon creators, Matt Stone and Trey Parker stopped by my workplace at NYU's Tisch School of the Arts, to speak to a group of Freshmen students in our Storytelling Strategies class. (To be clear they stopped by the building and not by my des...read more
For a limited time only, I'm BETA-testing with making some of the premium Indie Film Boot Camp 6-DVD Deluxe Set content available a la carte on a pay-per-view basis. So instead of owning the DVD, you can "rent" it via streaming video for 72 hours. Even though it's easily worth double the bargain ...read more
The good people at the light meter company, Sekonic, are hosting the first of a multi-part free video webinar series today at 1pm E.S.T. on using available light for portraiture. Specifically, on lighting using a sunlit window. There's always more to learn when it comes to lighting and it's free,...read more
I generally stopped reading physical newspapers more than two years ago and instead get all my news from the online versions of the papers I like to read. Apart from the savings, environmental and clutter issues, the best part of the online news sources is that they offer more in the way of video,...read more