By Ben Crosbie Like many young filmmakers, when I made my first film, I didn’t realize that I needed to use tape. I shot some really awesome scenes, and when I went back to watch them, all I saw was a blue screen. Call it learning the hard way. In […]

 By Ben Crosbie In the last post I promised I would tell you more about audio.  This is where I fulfill that promise – for only three easy payments of $39.99, you too can learn the secrets of documentary audio production! (Not a guarantee) Anyway… Audio is usually the part of […]

By Ben Crosbie Now I know this is probably where most people will have Ctrl+F-ed their way through the page trying to find all the juicy info on what equipment we are using (I’m a self-admitted gear-head also guilty of this) so I hate to disappoint you – but due to […]

By Ben Crosbie I’d be lying if I told you we had not thought about how we were going to get to Israel long before we started researching the film. But I’m not a liar, only a crazy kid trying to make it in this world. I knew, or had hoped […]

How do you make a documentary film? Just do it! Nike-isms aside, it really is as simple as picking up a camera and shooting some film. Just like many other creative fields – writing, photography, painting – no amount of thinking or dreaming about it will ever get you as far as actually producing something, regardless of the quality of the final product. Now of course it’s not really just as simple as picking up a camera and shooting is it? It takes a lot of hard work, failure and discovery, and courage.

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