No Words, a video poem

What do you do when your filming options are still very limited because of the restrictions on working and gatherings of people due to the Coronavirus pandemic? You make a new video out of existing footage and other assets you have available to you. I made No Words, a video poem out stuff we had...

Beauty And The Beach will be screening in the F3: Frankly Film Festival in Ohio and in the Berlin Flash Film Festival! What is an eco-fashion film? The film is an eco-fashion film. Say what? That’s right, I said it. It’s an eco-fashion film. The subject matter is about the environment and its degradation and what...

How to shoot beauty at the beach – get a great model-actress like Hayley Pendergrass and get a great makeup artist like Thirati K! Problem solved. Seriously, it’s hard to take a bad photo of Hayley. We went out to Long Beach with a vague idea for a short film and to shoot some beauty...

Gate5 offers construction videographer services to document site progress with video and photography. We documented an offshore construction installation project for the Los Angeles Dept of Water and Power and L3 Harris MariPro,the contractor that took place in the Santa Monica Bay in Los Angeles. The morning the top frame was taken was one of...

Love breaks, a frame from the fashion film c’est l’amour we produced. The film is based on the poem, Don’t Ever Break A Woman’s Heart by Lorraine DuRocher. It plays on kiosks of a manufacturer of large 90″ 4k monitors. Directed by Greg McDonald of Gate5 in Los Angeles, it was shot at 6k resolution...

Social media video production Los Angeles by Gate5. Short and sweet is the key for videos destined for your social media sites like Instagram, Facebook, Twitter, Google Plus and the others. Humor is always a good way to grab attention for your product, service or company in a short amount of time. This humorous seven...

Fashion advertising photographer and film director Greg McDonald of video production company Gate5 in Los Angeles, directs c’est l’amour, shot in 6k resolution and mastered in 4k for use by a manufacturer of large screen LCD’s to demonstrate the detail and high quality of their 90″ 4k monitors. Gate5 is a full service, one-stop shop...

October in Los Angeles always means a spell of hot dry late summer weather. The view of Zuma beach from the rocks at the far end that you climb over to get to Pirate’s Cove.  

Van Gone, episode 11 of the comedy web series The Man Van from writer-director Greg McDonald of Gate5.  The series features behind the scenes videos of his efforts in trying to get a series called The Man Van off the ground. Episode 11 finds Greg lost without the van which is in the shop for...

Frame from the beauty and fashion shoot at Sunken City beach by photographer and fashion film director Greg McDonald.