Hollywood and the Nonprofit Cinematographer Merge

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Have you seen “Act of Valor,” the 2012 feature film starring a cast of real Navy SEALs? The interesting thing about this movie is that it was the first feature film to be shot primarily with a DSLR camera. A typical digital cinema camera used in Hollywood today starts at about $90,000. But the DSLR (the Canon 5D Mark II) used in “Act of Valor” can be purchased from Best Buy for less than $2,000. As a video professional, I can actually see a big difference between a $90,000 cinema camera and a DSLR. I’m not even all that excited [...] Read more »

Trip to Nepal

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A few words to describe the contrasts of Nepal: Wonderful, chaotic, lively, inviting, beautiful and completely impoverished. I think my brain and emotions were on overdrive the whole two weeks Reliant spent capturing video for Tiny Hands International. Tiny Hands is an organization that works to fight poverty and social injustice. In our case, it means that we spent our time telling the stories of orphans who live in their children’s homes and girls who have been intercepted from human trafficking. We also saw kids living in the streets and begging for food everywhere. While we were at the border, [...] Read more »