🎥💡✌🏽👨🏻Not too long ago, I got my Blackmagic Pocket 6K camera and I’ve been able to shoot 50fps on a lot projects. When I used to have my Sony A7Sii, I could shoot slow mo only in 1080p and that’s just didn’t cut if for me. I definitely over used my slow mo mode on the camera because I just love how it all turned out. So should be shooting/filming in 24FPS or 60FPS? When's it appropriate to shoot slow mo?

Figuring out what to charge a client is difficult. There’s a lot of factors that come into play when someone asks hey how much do you charge for a video. It’s not a simple question to answer. If you’re a freelancer, I’m you can relate to this especially if you’re in the video or photo world. This is one of the most requested questions that I get. How do you tell people what you charge?

What are somethings that you as filmmaker need to invest in so that can make your low-budget music videos look better? Today I wanna talk about 5 things that EVERY filmmaker needs to have in order to shoot better music videos.

My brand new BMPCC 6k that came in the mail a couple days ago. I can’t tell you how incredibly excited I am to use this camera. I’m in my brand new studio.

Let’s say you already have a camera and some gear, got a business license, and a nice little reel put together. So how much should you charge for a video?

If you’re a solo filmmaker most of the time, like me, then shooting a music video at night could be a challenging thing to do especially when you’re working with small budgets. We have all watched hundreds of movies and TV shows that have made night scenes look stunning but also know that there’s probably at least pretty big crew working to light the scenes. But my focus for this video is filmmakers that want shoot night scenes for music videos but just need some tips and tricks on how to make their shots look better.

As a DP, I was given the task of shooting and lighting an entire performance music video with an iPhone 11. When I first read this on the brief, I almost had a panic attack because I got so worried that this was going to look horrible. I’ve worked on projects with iPhone footage in the past and it’s just incredibly difficult to color or tweak footage that comes out of it. But after this experience, I was convinced that it’s possible. I mean look at all the more recent Apple commercials that are entirely shot on the iPhone. They look really well done, granted those commercials are shot with commercial budgets not with music video budgets. It’s like comparing a great dane to a chihuahua.

Having a shot list for your shoot is extremely important and crucial. It helps you save time, money, and gives you guidelines to work in during the shoot so you don’t get sidetracked from the objective of the shoot.

After about 3 years of editing on the FCPX, I was forced to edit in Premiere on this certain project because I had turn in the Premiere project files to the client I was working with. After editing a couple of projects on Premiere I discovered that I liked it better and stuck with it ever since. So here are 3 reasons why I edit my projects on Premiere Pro.

These are some ideas for you to consider when it comes to saving money! You may know some them, some of these are obvious, but hopefully some of them will be new to you so that you can save a little bit of extra cash, invest it, and hopefully it can lead to more financial freedom in your life.

Over the past five years of freelancing, I’ve gotten to shoot hundreds of projects equating to probably thousands of video clips. All of this footage has been stock piled into dozens of hard drives, and I finally had to do something with it. In this article I talk about how I’ve been making an extra $300/mo in passive income from selling stock footage.

Are you a director, DP, or editor? Have you edited your reel yet? Here are some tips that I can offer as you work on this year's reel!