SENIOR MEDIA THESIS

So my girlfriend has been wanting me to watch Bones for a long time, probably about a year. So I started watching the show about a month ago...

Have you ever been fiddling around with a trailer for your thesis film and thought, "eh, what the hell, let me throw "Break on Thr...

Downhill skateboarding is inherently dangerous, regardless of how you look at it. There are so many variables (cars, telephone poles, animal...

I'm going to make a (possibly) bold statement and say that the music videos that Kendrick Lamar has released to go along with his newest...

Red Bull just released a new BMX video, and it plays heavily with forced perspective to add an interesting element for all viewers, BMX fans...

This week my production hit a small roadblock that led to a great conclusion. After meeting with my editor the unfortunate truth was reveale...

As many of you may know, I sent my Ninja 2 in for repair a few weeks ago due to a faulty HDMI input that was no fault of any mistreatm...

 A new, Doc/Spoken Word piece, focusing on the importance of props in cinema, will engage you fully. Using footage from classic cinema, edit...

Assistant editors are the unsung heroes of the post-production world. While the editor puts together the film and gets a lot of the credit f...

With the Star Wars: The Force Awakens premiere just about a month away and the release of the new trailer, it's clear it is all anyone ...

This weekend Donald Trump will be hosting Saturday Night Live. A 40 year old institution Americans turn to for its take on the issues, SNL i...

We will all be entering the workforce soon, if we have not already done so. For a lot of us this will mean freelancing. An inevitable part o...

As a student filmmaker, you typically only have so much gear at your disposal. Yeah, you probably have your DSLR, a few lenses, and a DIY so...

Finally an update about Size 0!! Now that I'm in the exciting process of editing, I can share some of my highs and lows of the documenta...

Steve Jobs - the new Aaron Sorkin-scripted movie, not the person - is incredibly unique. Certainly not in its subject matter, since Jobs has...

We have officially begun post production on Relativity, and I can say that I'm so excited to get back into this project. Although I'...

The Black and Blue , a popular website for camera assistants, released an article called "88 cinematographers share the best profession...

James Franco and Seth Rogen come together yet again on another film project and I can practically hear the cheering. This time, Franco wil...

Growing up I had numerous influences of music in my life. From playing the saxophone from 4th-12th grade, to listening to my classically tra...

I've never particularly enjoyed watching horror films, but recently, I've been really interested in figuring out some of the differe...

This week Ithaca College president, Tom Rochon, called an all campus meeting to discuss the racial climate on campus. On his part it failed ...

Organization is easily one of the best ways to quickly get anything done in the film world. In most cases it can be almost impossible to get...

" In May, the ACLU asked state and federal governments to investigate the hiring practices that leave women with only a minuscule frac...

Recently Atmos dropped the price of both their Ninja Star and Ninja 2 models and made them super affordable for entry level film makers such...

I'm having a pretty difficult time making sense of Sicario. Coming fresh off the heels of my first Villeneuve film viewing (the weird, o...

When it comes down to it, it's not about what camera is used to obtain a shot but what the actual shot is of. Many filmmakers go the di...

I like to think of Saturday Night Live as a daycare for comedians with Lorne Michaels as the overruling nanny for all the little kids who...

When you think of filmmakers pushing the boundaries of film making the first thing that pops into your head is Hollywood. Big budgets big st...

In the recent years drones have been skyrocketing (ha) in popularity. With the holiday season approaching experts are estimating that over a...

We've all been there, you're standing on set with a DSLR, flimsy tripod, half a roll of gaff tape, two thirds of a c stand wishing y...

During Monday’s lighting workshop with Chris Scarafile, he said something toward the end that really stuck with me.   When someone asked ...