One of my favorite aspects of working as a producer and director is the ability to collaborate with my team. While I feel like the word “collaboration” has been pummeled into becoming somewhat of a buzzword, it is a critical component in almost all of our projects at...
Video projects are intricate mechanisms with more moving parts than a fine Swiss timepiece. And when you only have 48 hours to conceive, execute, and deliver a video, the clock is always ticking… also like a fine Swiss timepiece! (Boy, what CAN’T you compare to...
It is very difficult to know where to begin when trying to create a case study out of “A vision for Tanzania”. Working with the Moran Eye Center and having the experience of travel around Tanzania for a few weeks was truly a life changing experience. We were contacted...
Which camera is best for making your story? I have been working professionally with film and digital camera equipment now since the days of Beta and DV tape. The limitations we would experience in those days as visual storytellers were very humbling and very real. The...
Prime, cine, zoom, tilt-shift, wide-angle, telephoto, parfocal, macro, what do they all mean? Just the many types of lenses we [filmmakers] choose to focus our shot! There are many factors into which lens I might choose for the shot or situation. Sometimes the bigger...
Here at Oswego Creative, we tell a lot of stories about real people, working real jobs, providing for real families. These stories are authentic and feature everyday folks who are not actors, and for the vast majority have zero experience in video production, let...