A video edit is not finished when it looks right, it’s finished when it feels right. If a story doesn’t make you feel something, then what is the point in creating it? A story void of feeling is hardly a story at all, right? I will admit, before we go on, that filming and interviewing […]
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One Motel, Two Pubs
The town had one motel. Two pubs. A road running North to South, crossing the road running East to West. There was a bakery and a coffee shop – although the bakery sold coffee too. Every person we passed in the street knew each other, so it was obvious we weren’t from around those parts […]
“We tell and take in stories as much as we sleep, and even then, we dream.” – Robert McKee Storytelling is a fundamental human experience; without story, we wouldn’t be human beings at all. From the earliest recorded history there has been evidence of story used to educate and transfer information. The storyteller has the […]
On a recent shoot, my client – expressing how nervous she was being in front of the camera – asked me if I was nervous as well. I was caught off guard for a moment, because no one has ever asked me that before a shoot, and it isn’t something I’ve thought about for a […]
Video gives people a voice. As a videographer I’m able to help someone be heard, and take their message to the person who needs to hear it. I love getting to know my clients on a really personal level. Hearing their story – the real story, not the soft version they tell the rest of […]