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Creatively using stock footage in your work

This week's episode of the podcast is dense with specific knowledge on how to make the most out of your work. Link in this bio.

Frame Set

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How to Craft Commercials With Taste

Crafting The Most Tasteful Commercials With Loris Russier

Why Filmmakers Sacrifice Themselves for a Music Video

Adam Halmos's Reference for the "Money Shot"

Why Filmmakers Sacrifice Themselves for a Music Video

Why frame your characters in this way?

Not a shred of AI

Damien Blue is back on the pod

Not a Shred of AI - BRICK Commercial Breakdown with Damien Blue

How Josh Cohen Made Jalapeños Explode.

Transitions were everything

Why am I so out of breath?

What a complicated shot

Behind the Scenes of Cara Delevingne's Big Music Video

Team work on set in action

How Megan Tan shot a commercial in one day

A piece of acrylic?

How Megan Tan Shot a Commercial in One Day

Creatively using stock footage in your work

A bowl full of yellow pee

The go to source for human-made cinematic inspiration.

How to Build an Affordable Cable Cam

Can a GoPro Really Be Cinematic?

What Makes This Shot Feel So Elevated

Getting those iridescent reflections from a crystal prism can be tricky.

What Makes Sabrina Nijenhuis’s Directing So Special

Everything We Were Taught Not to Do

How they Built a Helicopter Out of People

How They Built a Helicopter Out of People for a Commercial

How They Shot This

Do you think it’s harder or easier to stand out as a creative in the industry today?

Breaking Down Aidan Cullen's Cosmos Commercial (feat. Odessa A'zion)

What it's like to generate images with AI.

When to shoot practically and when to involve VFX and CGI.

What do you think?

How DP Adam Bentel dodged sensor death by laser on his recent project for KFC.

"Atmosphere-Maxxing" This KFC Commercial With DP Adam Bentel

How Adam Bentel “Atmosphere-Maxxed” This KFC Commercial

How Shapxo Pulls Off Impossible VFX Shots

How Shapxo Pulls Off Impossible VFX Shots

How They Pulled This Off

What makes Rick Darge a great director

How Rick Darge Directs BIG Commercials

How They Shot This

How Simon Becks Directs a Challenging Shoot

“This Was Tough” Directing a KUN Music Video

Are narrative music videos here to stay?

How they shot this

A Spec Commercial That Doesn’t Look Like One

The Big Budget Look with Student Project Resources

How Young Replicant Shoots Music Videos

How Young Replicant Shoots Music Videos

How Morgan Le Faucheur and his crew rigged this shot

How Morgan Le Faucheur Shot This on an iPhone

How They Shot This Cinematic Masterpiece (iPhone Bike Pedal Rig)

Making More With Less

How Scott Secco Makes Small Budgets Look High-End

How they made this.

How They Made This - Coinbase Commercial Breakdown

The use of robotics in this North Face commercial

You guys ever see this before?

Shooting with miniatures for The North Face

How they got this shot.

How to Shoot a North Face Commercial

What enabled this ridiculous shot