This post provides a few tips that will hopefully help you go into your next shoot feeling confident and ready to take on any challenge that comes your way.

Call sheets are an imperative part of the pre-production process. It provides all the details to your cast and crew to ensure everyone is on the same page for the day. It makes sure they show up on time (early) with everything they need to be successful on the day.

Media management to me, is a lot like accounting. It isn't the most fun thing to do but is fundamental to the success of your business.

The Last Mambabatok is a short film that features Apo Whang-Od, a tribal tattoo artist for the But-But tride in the Buscalan Village of Tinglayan, Kalinga.

This post walks through three methods of smoothing out your timelapse footage while removing the staccato effect.

For any production, no matter the size or style, it is important to scout your locations ahead of time whenever possible to ensure you are prepared.

For me, one of the hardest parts when editing a video is determining what music to use. This process usually takes almost as long as the process of capturing and editing the footage combined!

In any production environments, it is important that you balance the crew, cast and client needs. At the end of the day, if each of these parties are not happy, you didn't do your job.

Every Moment Counts is a short that follows the journey of a cod fisherman who, after being enthralled in the industry for years, is considering putting away his gear for the last time.

There were a few things I learned along the way and things that I believe would have made my trip easier if I would have known how to deal with them beforehand. What I hope to do with this post is give you a little bit of insight into the production and help you on your trips to a foreign country.

One of the biggest challenges when shooting a time-lapse is gear management. This post talks about how to best prep your gear.

As many people have proclaimed, day to night or night to day time-lapses are the ‘holy grail’ of time-lapse shooting. In this blog post, I will quickly walk you through a few different ways of capturing these types of shots.

Once you have mastered static time-lapses, the next thing to add to your repertoire is the ability to shoot motion controlled time-lapses. Like static time-lapses, it is key to think of each frame as a unique image.

In this post, I will first walk you through how to setup your camera and then will follow with the 7 questions that you will want to ask yourself before heading out to shoot.

In this article, Armand walks us through his journey developing his unique look and also shows us how he achieve long exposure timelapses.

I recently had a discussion on twitter that was less than supportive and I was really frustrated with the way in which the conversation transpired. As a result, I wanted to create a post that dealt with both the influence and power of social media as well as break down the conversation in question, which in my mind tried to define ‘The Filmmaker’ in a very narrow-minded way.