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Cinema cameras are expensive. In many ways there isn’t a ton of need for it as you can get cinema quality footage working with a smartphone and clever color editing, but if you want to work with a powerful...

Tuition at Columbia University’s Graduate School of Journalism costs an eye-watering $83,844 a year. That is a LOT of money. And CJS is only a one-year program. If you are going to a university as a journalism major, and it’s a...

Whether you are working on a budget, or just love DIY solutions, there are some cardboard tricks can use to do some cool things with your camera. Producing video can be a costly endeavor, but it doesn’t have to....

Last week, millions of people lined up at their local Apple Store or camped out waiting by the door for their mail carrier to get their hands on the brand new iPhone X. The iPhone X is a new departure...

There was a fascinating news story on CBS This Morning (this morning). As Trump was in Korea, CBS News correspondent Ben Tracy went to Dandong, North Korea, to do a story about the massive amount of trade that goes...

Ella Fields, who is now 14, made this amazing short film last year for a school project. She was taking a cinema course and wanted to make a film about something she was passionate about. She quickly decided on...

Max Lanman’s girlfriend had a problem. She had an old 1996 Honda Accord, with 141,095 miles on it that she wanted to sell. She was asking $499. Now, in the olden days, if you wanted to sell a used...

DSLR cameras can produce beautiful images. They give you a lot of manual control and you can get truly cinematic shots with them. It is no surprise that these cameras, along with smartphones, are most commonly used to make videos for...

Last night, Lisa and I watched a documentary on a British online network called Acorn, about the Orient Express. We were particularly interested, as we had actually taken the Orient Express from London to Venice earlier this year. The trip was...

Everyone wants to make better videos. Everyone wants their work to jump off the screen and look as cinematic as possible. While there’s no shortcut around learning how to shoot, edit and tell stories well in video, there are...