Over the last few years, I’ve touched on screenwriting rather infrequently. I’ve discussed theme, how to write a simple pitch treatment, and analyzed other people’s stories, but most of the time, I’ve focused on color grading, computer gear, and cameras. It’s a little unbalanced, because post-production is such a small part of what makes [...]

Twelve years ago, James Cameron made the world’s most expensive movie, which turned out to be the world’s highest grossing movie (unless you adjust for inflation, of course). A vast majority of its colossal budget went to the painstaking detail of historical authenticity; custom carpets woven by the same companies that outfitted the real Titanic, [...]

A couple months ago I received a phone call out of the blue offering me a position to help out on the musical score for The Vision Forum and Erwin brothers studio’s latest film, The Mysterious Islands. The film is about a group of extraordinary men who travel to the Galapagos Islands to refute the [...]

The enemies of God use every weapon at their disposal to attack the Lordship of Christ. One primary weapon historically wielded has been the arts: cinema, theatre, painting, music, and even novels. In this post, historian Paul Johnson goes into considerable detail describing how liberals, Marxists, and humanists took over the theater, cinema, novels, and other arts to sway the populace of Europe in general and Germany in particular during the 1920’s. Johnson calls this “cultural trench warfare” and insightfully presents a description of how Germany desensitized toward evil so that the people would be prepared to receive Adolf Hitler about a decade later. What can we learn from the past so that we are not doomed to repeat its failures?[...]

The Western Conservatory of the Arts and Sciences just recently completed the documentary Homeschool Dropouts: Why the second generation is headed for a spiritual wasteland, for which I was privileged to write the music. You can view the trailer above.

Here are some screenshots I took of Cubase 4 in mid-project. The screenshots couldn’t [...]

The Vision Forum Video Department has been working for the last two months on creating the bonus features for The Mysterious Islands DVD. This morning executive producer of the film Doug Phillips approved the final cut of one of these features—Photography: Shooting the Galapagos.
In this feature, photographer extraordinaire Peter Pallock gives the inside scoop on [...]

A common idea in modern journalism is that for a documentary to be “fair,” its creator must have no biases about the subject in question. Even if this were remotely possible from an ideological standpoint, the filmmaker would still have to know nothing and care nothing about the subject or message of his film until [...]

As I’ve mentioned before, we shot the documentary Homeschool Dropouts on the 5DmkII in August, and posted it during September. It was a great learning experience, since it was our first time shooting video on a dSLR. Below is the worst shot from the project – all of the 5D’s image issues are visible in [...]

Several months ago I (and pretty much every other video blogger) talked about what Canon could do to improve their lineup of HD-capable dSLRs from the perspective of video production. Since then, they have added a lot of improvements, some with firmware upgrades, and some in new hardware. Here’s a quick update on where things [...]

Jonathan Park, Volume VI: The Journey Never Taken presents the most exciting and educational album in the series to date. In this album, the Creation Response Team spans continents and time to unravel a mystery behind long-forgotten treasure.
But one of the other mysteries of Jonathan Park is the man behind this remarkable series: Pat [...]