Empty Streets During Coronavirus Shut Down

It’s very strange and eerie seeing empty streets in Hollywood when they’re normally busy at all hours. The economic shut down and ‘stay at home’ order by Los Angeles County and the City due to the Coronavirus pandemic has made new opportunities for street photography like you’ve never seen before – but with limitations. Follow...

Writing-directing site for mostly my narrative work but also for fashion films and commercials. I’ve never had a personal site before that focuses on my writing and directing,  and I decided I needed one. So here it is, check it out at: gregorysmcdonald.com On the site, I’ll be posting newsworthy stuff about projects along with...

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...

Product videographer and full service production company in Los Angeles, Gate5 is expert in making product demo videos, how to tutorials, how it works explainer videos and social media content focusing on promoting products and driving sales. This is a frame of a 3D animation we created for a promotional video we produced featuring the...

Street fashion shoot on the streets of Los Angeles. Fashion photographer and director Greg McDonald of video production company Gate5, captures model Kimber. Gate5 is a creative video agency and full service video production company producing high quality sharable content for your social media outlets. We conceptualize, write scripts, direct, cast, film and edit viral...

Fashion film awards with the three amigos at the CinéFashion Film Awards last night at the El Capitan Theatre. Brandon Bernath (middle) was nominated for Best Actor in The Selfie That Changed The World shot by Roberto Correa (left), styled and produced by Lorraine DuRocher and written and directed by Greg McDonald (right). Gate5 is a...

CineFashion Film Awards by Cinémoi has nominated Brandon Bernath for Best Actor for his appearance in the humorous short fashion film, The Selfie That Changed The World written and directed by Greg McDonald of Gate5. Congrats Brandon! The awards show will be held at the El Capitan Theater in Hollywood on October 8, 2017 and...

Los Angeles event video production company Gate5 produced this behind the scenes (BTS) video of a photo shoot for a makeup client shot at 6k and mastered in HD. Even though it was shot entirely handheld, we were able to pull frames from the 6k footage for the client to use for promotional purposes. Behind the...

Instagram video production isn’t just about selfies. But don’t tell that to all those selfie addicts out there. Fashion film director Greg McDonald of Gate5 in Los Angeles, says hello in this selfie video he shot on Sunset Blvd to the La Jolla International Fashion Film Festival community where his short film satire, The Selfie That...

Video production services Los Angeles, Gate5 produced makeup tutorial videos for a cosmetics company. Here we capture one of the models in a behind the scenes photo in the old Hollywood glamour black and white style. Gate5 is a full service, video production service provider in Los Angeles. We specialize in branded content, web commercials,...