“It’s not about the camera.” It’s the new cool thing to say, in wake of camera nerds everywhere obsessing over gear. The truth is close to that. It is not ALL about the camera, BUT we should use the best available camera, within our budget, for each job, so, it IS about the camera to a certain extent. However, we shouldn’t get so wrapped up in gear and cameras that we just end up arguing about it online and...

First off: a huge thanks to Preston Kanak of 3 Minute Shorts, whose same day edits and incredible work ethic amazed everyone involved. Also thanks to Joel Graves, Jared Levy, Chad Nickle, Tanner Jobe, and Lindsay Grace who helped out tremendously. Also, without Cristina’s hard work, behind the scenes, coordinating a lot of the details that people don’t think about, this would have been impossible, along with the outstanding...

Table 7 – short film from Marko Slavnic on Vimeo. Thanks to @mariofeil for directing my attention to this short film shot on the Red One. I enjoyed the lighting, composition, camera movement and sound design on this. The story was simple but effective with a nice funny twist. I think the attention to the small details here added up to a very excellent finished product. This was Written and Directed by Marko Slavnic. Photo Credit:...

After months of planning and organizing every single detail, we’re only 25 days from one of the biggest events of the year. We teamed up with our good friends over at Kessler Crane to bring together an amazing line up of speakers at Masters In Motion in Austin, TX from November 14-16. We’ve been working very hard on developing a unique event that goes beyond gear. Instead, our focus is on filmmaking as a whole, elevating your...

1) Buy Camera with shallow DOF. 2) Buy Batteries. 3) Buy Media 4) Shoot Something. 5) Upload to the Interwebs. I kid, I kid. If only it were that easy. In all seriousness though. This is what we all strive for right? We want to be successful filmmakers. The good news is that while not a comprehensive or exhaustive list these 5 easy steps can be applied to almost any area of your life. 1) Determine what being a “successful...

We are so excited to be heading to Santa Fe, NM this November for Chronos Film Festival and want to encourage everyone to submit their work! It’s only $20 to submit one of your pieces that features either timelapses, slow motion, or stop motion before September 1st! Now let me help convince you to take the trip to Santa Fe, NM and hang out with us… First of all there’s going to be two awesome...

So as some of you know we’ve been working on transferring all the content from this site to our new site ShootEditLearn.com. We’ve run into a few technical issues but don’t worry, we’re not gonna make the switch until we’re absolutely sure our readers will still be able to utilize all the previous information on this site. Now it’s been a while since we’ve posted anything but quite a lot has been...