Fashion Film Director Greg McDonald at La Jolla Fashion Film Festival

We just came across this clip of fashion film director Greg McDonald, founder and Producer at Gate5 and cinematographer Roberto Correa introducing the film, The Selfie That Changed The World at the La Jolla International Fashion Film Festival in 2017. The film was nominated for Best Creative Direction and Best Narration. Watch the clip on...

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...

A Flash Fiction Story “Even though I couldn’t see them behind her mirrored aviators, I could feel the disgust shooting out of her baby blue eyes and tugging on every last rotten cell of my plaque-filled heart strings. I didn’t need to see her eyes to recognize the look. I’d seen it before after a...

Blue Summer Sun Fashion. Even though I actually shot this in February, I’m still going to call it summer sun! To hell with being literal. After all, I color graded it in summer so it’s justified. I came across this photo from a previous shoot and I had disregarded it. I was looking for a...

It’s behind me… what the? Ahhhh!! Don’t worry. I’m okay. It was nothing. I just stepped on a discarded bag of potato chips. The noise scared me a bit. My little venture into some creepy location scouting at the old LA zoo in Griffith Park in Los Angeles. I was checking it out for a possible...

Happy Halloween! I don’t know why but we never get many trick or treaters at the cabin. Have a safe and fun and Halloween from Gate5 in Los Angeles. Photo by Greg McDonald. Gate5 is a creative video agency and full service video production company producing high quality sharable content for your social media outlets....

Street photography at it’s best, but um – don’t do this while driving. Director Greg McDonald shot this while stopped in gridlock traffic just southeast of downtown Los Angeles. An unusual August storm created a dramatic sky that you don’t see in LA too often in the summer. Gate5 is a creative video agency and...

Top commercial production company Los Angeles, Gate5 produced this spot as part of a reality music competition TV show that aired in central and northern California and Nevada. Gate5 is a full service, one-stop shop video production provider in Los Angeles. We specialize in branded content, web commercials, product demo videos, explainer videos, promotional &...

Frame from an episode of the comedy web series, The Man Van, written and directed by Greg McDonald.