Our Tools

Equipment

We use top of the line professional video cameras (4K) to achieve a high quality video result. The camera used depends on the project. For a ‘journalistic’ or spontaneous style of shooting, various cameras might be used for their combination of clear image and portability. All other equipment is professional quality as well: lenses, monitors, stabilizers, tripods, a variety of mic set-ups, lights — whatever is required for the best outcome.

Ingenuity

Sometimes you need to be inventive. What comes to mind is the project requiring the incorporation of more than a dozen ship models into a video story. In order to have the ship models in movement, we researched large turntables but discovered the ones solid enough to hold four foot long models cost thousands of dollars. The answer? Obscure internet instructions, a trip to Home Depot, Jackson’s Hardware and a few other stops (such as the jaunt to pick up the Craig’s List rotisserie motor); plus finding a super duper handyman to put it all together. The turntable worked and those ships looked beautiful.

Perseverance

Whatever is needed, we’ve always been able to create or find (so far!). Obscure historical cement process footage sitting in a back office file drawer in Ohio? Solved by lots and lots of phone calls! Need beautiful underwater ocean footage or underwater salmon river footage? Solved by friends of friends of professional divers. Need otherwise overly expensive aerials of a specific area? Again the internet and the telephone come to the rescue!