The Best Aspect Ratio For Your Video Production

With so many social media outlets each with their own ideal video format, it’s hard to know what is the best aspect ratio for your video production. How do you choose between ratios of 16×9, 4×3, 1×1, 4×5, 9×16? The optimal strategy is to plan out before any filming takes place and decide what outlets...

I give you – Alone In The Desert, the shortest horror movie in the world. It’s got everything; an identifiable character, a universal theme, tension, mystery and a surprise ending that doesn’t spoon feed you the answer, leaving the interpretation up to you. All in 25 seconds. Only a slacker would need 2 hours to...

What will the post Covid 19 corporate video production world look like? To sum it up, the bigger your crew is the more it’s going to cost in time and money to follow all of the new safety precautions. Los Angeles county has issued it’s safety protocols to allow filming to be re-started and they...

Are you making the best use of your time during the video production shut down? I think I am but I can’t shake the feeling I should be doing more. When all the time in the world suddenly becomes available to you, you should be accomplishing a million things, right? If you don’t, you must...

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...

We’re super excited about our new episodic video series called Hemp Already, about all things hemp that we’re producing. Here’s the sizzle reel, or teaser. Produced by Greg McDonald and Gate5. The first episode is coming in 2020! Update: the show is online. Read about Hemp Already, the video series. Why a show about Hemp?...

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...

The film, Nowhere In the Universe, written and directed by Greg McDonald won Best Comedy Film and Audience Choice Award at the Los Angeles Underground Film Forum! The film is a sci-fi comedy about how some lines can never be crossed no matter how desperate you are. Keeping with the ‘underground’ theme, the festival was low-key, they didn’t...

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...

Behind the scenes timelapse footage of special effects alien makeup, prosthetics and body paint being applied by Makeup Artist Thirati K on actress Kaitlyn Clare for the film, Nowhere In The Universe. The film was produced, directed and written by Greg McDonald of Gate5, a video production company in Los Angeles. Unfortunately, we weren’t able...