Video editing apps are becoming more advanced and more intuitive all the time, and it’s so exciting! You don’t need a desktop computer to be a YouTube star anymore. Most apps allow you to edit and export straight to social media, and are adding more features and editing precision with every update. Here are five […]
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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 […]
Audio can make for break your video. It doesn’t matter how amazing your footage is, how beautifully lit your set is, how much effort you put into making your titles and graphics; if the audio is bad your audience is going to keep on scrolling. Pulling our smart phone out to capture something on video, […]
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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 […]
I get to spend a lot of time in the air and on the road as a videographer. My work takes me to all kinds of hidden gems around Australia – some places I can’t even pronounce the name of. Sometimes I’m in and out of a town or city in less than 24hrs, or […]
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 […]