Focus On Story In Your Video Marketing

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When strategizing your next video production, the most import thing to do is to focus on story in your video marketing. “Story” or “storytelling” has become a bit of a buzzword but nevertheless, it’s the most important aspect when crafting a video. Related: boost your video marketing output with repurposed content. What does story mean...

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The Shortest Horror Movie In The World

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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...

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No Words, a video poem

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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...

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Best Comedy Film

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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...

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Nowhere In The Universe

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Nowhere in the Universe is a sci-fi fashion comedy film directed by Greg McDonald about desperation – no matter how desperate you become, some lines can never be crossed. Update: it won Best Comedy Film and Audience Choice Award at the LA Underground Film Forum! It’s also a semi-finalist in Cinefest LA. The location We...

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Alien Sighting

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A behind the scenes video of an alien sighting in California’s high desert. Kaitlyn Clare stars as the alien in the fashion comedy sci-fi short film, “Nowhere in the Universe”. It’s available on Amazon Prime Video. The shoot I had a blast making this! It was a super small cast and crew with great chill...

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Construction Videographer

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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...

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Desert Location Scouting

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I went desert location scouting for an upcoming fashion film. This was my second scouting trip with a few more to go since I didn’t find what I was looking for here. Looking for nothing Seeking a completely desolate area to film in for a story about an alien that crashes her spacecraft and is...

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Polariod Fashion

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Polariod fashion fun! Nothing beats a real polariod and I’ve been thinking of getting one of the new insta film cameras but it’s still fun to mess around in Photoshop creating faux polariods. You can see the before frame taken from a fashion film and then after shot made up to be a fake polariod....

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Natural Beauty

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Natural beauty, a frame from the beauty makeup fashion film, “masque de l’art” directed and shot by Greg McDonald of Gate5, a video production company in Los Angeles. The film was shot in portrait mode, or vertically and features three looks; natural beauty, color and smoky eyes. It was shot at 5k resolution and mastered...

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