Need an incentive to love your stock lens? Break down some of the benefits of sticking with your camera’s stock zoom lens. I’d like to preface this article by saying one thing. Wanting to, and using, a wide array of unique and different lenses is always ideal over sticking to one lens for al

Follow these tips and tricks to create awesome (and accurate) time travel sequences in your next sci-fi film or video project. Cover image from Future Man via Sony Pictures Television. From time travel classics like Back to the Future to the recently released series Future Man, time travel h

Let’s look at the cameras used to capture the entire Marvel Cinematic Universe. First up, we’ll explore the Phase One films. I was curious about which camera was most used throughout the production process of the Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU), so I took a deep dive into each of

Want to know about the cameras behind Netflix Originals? Here are the cameras Netflix has officially approved — and the films and series using them. It’s been a while since we’ve talked about the Netflix camera standards and the shows using them. Let’s take a look at the up

We got the secrets behind how some of the classic Dungeons and Dragons artwork came to be — and making a documentary about it. I was recently lucky enough to sit down with co-director and editor Kelley Slagle and sound mixer and editor Seth Polansky of the recent documentary Eye of the Behol

In this post-production guide, we take a look at maximizing your investment in an assistant editor for your film or video project. For many editors, it can be hard to admit when they need help. However, if you’ve been editing long enough, you know just what you can accomplish in a day

Cinematographer Matt Porwoll shares some insight about shooting classic verité on the modern documentary “Tigerland” at Sundance 2019. I’m a huge fan of documentaries. In particular, I enjoy and identify with the sub-docu genre of classic cinema verité style. Tigerland prem

We spoke with the Oscar-nominated editor of Green Book, Patrick J. Don Vito, about knowing when to make the call and kill your darlings. As filmmaking evolves, it’s our job as filmmakers to rise to the occasion and tell compelling stories in new ways from new perspectives. Green Book i

So you’re making a film, and there’s no budget for location scouting and management. No problem — here’s how you handle it yourself. You’ve got your script, your cast and crew is lined up, and all your gear is in order. But where are you going to shoot your film? Location s

The Oscar-winning editor behind Whiplash and La La Land describes cutting First Man like a documentary. If you’ve seen First Man, you know there are a few scenes that were so unbearably tense and perfectly executed that you’d be thinking about them for weeks. For example, the und

Documentary filmmaking can be tricky. Follow these five tenets of capturing good B-roll to help streamline your next project. When you’re first starting out as a documentary filmmaker, it makes sense to shoot, shoot, and shoot some more. You want to record everything because everything

In this industry roundup, we’ve collected five of the best places (and resources) to pitch your documentary film projects It’s amazing what you can learn from someone who’s been there and done that. When you’re first starting off in film and video, everything about the industry seems s

Editor Eyal Dimant shares some insights based on his work editing with the Coen Brothers on “The Ballad of Buster Scruggs.” While we all know and love the Coen Brothers for their filmmaking masterpieces spanning from Raising Arizona to The Big Lebowski to their latest Netflix ant

Getting ready to shoot a documentary film? Here are seven reasons why you absolutely need a producer to help guide your project. It takes a certain kind of crazy to want to be a documentary filmmaker. Documentaries by nature are open-ended, undefined, and very often chaotic. Schedules change

Before you consider your project completely done and ready for delivery, make sure you go through this final quality control checklist. Whether it’s a final cut of your festival debut feature, an hour-long wedding video, or deliverables for a client, there will always be that terrifying feel

There’s a whole library of nature sounds recorded in Yellowstone National Park now available to download for free. Whether you’re working on a documentary, a short film, a feature film, or a vlog-type tutorial, good audio is absolutely essential. Finding good, realistic, clear so

Narration can be a powerful storytelling device for any film project. Here’s why you should consider adding it to yours. There are probably a few films that I’ve seen over a hundred times. One of those is Bottle Rocket — Wes Anderson’s first feature starring Owen and Luke Wilson. I’ve also d

Sometimes you don’t need a long tutorial to pick up some new editing tricks. Check out our favorites from Editing Modulations. When it comes to learning more about film editing, one of my favorite new internet finds is the Editing Modulations Tumblr page. It’s a great mixture of

Interested in screening your films at film festivals? Here are five reasons why you should consider volunteering before you start making submissions. When you look at the huge number of submissions and all the competition to get into major film festivals, the odds of getting your project in

We took a behind-the-scenes look into the workflow of one documentary filmmaker’s quest to avoid unconscious bias in her work. In this Adobe featurette on award-winning documentary filmmaker Robin Hauser, we not only get a peek inside the editing workflow of a talented and diverse team, we a