filmmaking

    YouTube implements tighter restrictions for creators to monetise their content
    Jan 17, 2018 John Aldred

    This one’s going to upset a lot of people. That much is obvious. Because, whenever YouTube move the goal posts required for monetisation, people always…

    How to remove people from travel videos and photos without editing
    Jan 15, 2018 John Aldred

    The problem with visiting popular tourist destinations is, obviously, other tourists. Anywhere you go that’s pretty and popular is flooded by a stream of other…

    How to film yourself when nobody’s around to help
    Jan 8, 2018 John Aldred

    Filming myself is probably one of the more difficult things I’ve ever attempted to learn with a camera. It’s so easy when you’re filming other…

    5 ways to tell better stories with your drone footage
    Jan 4, 2018 John Aldred

    I might’ve mentioned this before, but a lot of drone videos are starting to look kind of samey. It’s always the “cinematic” (basically a 2.4:1…

    The best settings to create cinematic footage on your mobile phone
    Dec 28, 2017 John Aldred

    For some, the humble mobile phone is their weapon fo choice when it comes to shooting video. For others, it’s simply what they have with…

    Gimbals – Are they terrible and overused or a valuable storytelling tool?
    Dec 26, 2017 John Aldred

    Gimbals can be a wonderful filmmaking tool. They’ve become quite popular over the last year or two, very popular in fact. But are they becoming…

    This recorder lets you turn a single camera into three separate shots while shooting
    Dec 22, 2017 John Aldred

    Video monitors have seen some pretty rapid development over the last few years. We’ve seen them go from the heavy CRT of the standard definition…

    Filmmaker shows a journey from “impossible” idea to a successfully finished project
    Dec 21, 2017 Dunja Đuđić Kalinin

    Most of the creatives have those ideas that keep stuck in their head and just won’t go away. Some of them are pretty crazy, they…

    Five composition rules of filmmaking, and how to break them
    Dec 12, 2017 Dunja Đuđić Kalinin

    There are plenty of composition rules in filmmaking and photography and with them come many reasons to follow them. But there are often reasons to…

    8 tools every cinematographer needs in their “Ditty bag”
    Dec 12, 2017 John Aldred

    Every photographer or filmmaker has things that go into their bag, even if they’re working as part of a team. There are things that you…