February 6, 2012 It was on a flight to Australia in August 2009 that the benefits of shooting with a DSLR camera finally hit me. We were following a group of SickKids patients to the World Transplant Games in Brisbane. A big part of the […]
January 17, 2012 I started my morning ritual as usual yesterday, sitting down with the newspaper – Toronto Star first, gathering the pesky inserts that I usually throw into the blue bin. But one caught my eye – a Henry’s ad for the new NIKON […]
December 25, 2011 One of my pet production peeves is something I’ll call ‘equipment creep,’ basically taking a big hammer (or many hammers) to a job when a single, small hammer will do. In a production environment there are lots of reasons to want extra […]
November 1, 2011 One of the questions that I inevitably get asked is, “What makes a great video?” Typically it’s one of those questions that gets asked early in an RFP interview. The question is an honest one – but often used to stump me. […]
March 12, 2013 – 11:30a, Austin Texas A half an hour till this year’s SXSW Interactive Conference closes. I’m tired. Over the last four days, Christine and I have done over 70 interviews with many of the leading interactive and social media thinkers for our new […]
How do you inspire creativity on a daily basis? It’s a challenge everyone faces, regardless of industry. For us, creative inspiration comes from a combination of problem-solving, discovering innovative ways to generate and capture content and, most importantly, brainstorming with one another. Getting away from […]
Smartphone Tips for Professional Video: Helping you SAVE money and ADD value In the early days of user-generated content, a lot of big companies reached out to customers asking them to share their stories using footage shot with their phones. The experiment; while engaging […]
It was such a pleasure to “meat” you in October at the Adelaide Hotel Halloween Party. Thank you for posing, sharing and indulging in our haunted photobooth activation. You got a chance to see a bit of how we work at our haunted photobooth, but […]
Meet Mike. Sound engineer master. Spaghetti addict. Chronic smiler. Favourite children’s book: “More Spaghetti, I Say!” By Rita Golden Gelman. It depicts a pair of monkey siblings, and revolves around a sister who cannot play with her little brother due to her oppressive spaghetti addiction. Once […]