It’s been a while but I thought I’d write down a few thoughts and share some of the aerial video we’ve shot here in the Philippines and a few other locations in Manila. It’s been just over a year since we purchased our first drone and started experimenting with aerial video and photography in the…
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Music has always been an important part of my life. From a very young age there was always music in the house and as teenagers my parents were really supportive, even going so far as to driving 45 minutes to come and pick up my brother at midnight from concerts. I had to cover quite…
A pageant is never missing in an city or Barangay in Manila. But this one in Mandaluyong City, a special pageant is created for Plus Size women. Bilbiling Mandaluyong (Miss Plus Size Mandaluyong). Bilbiling means “flabby”, which is a spinoff of the word Binibining which means Miss. Miss Plus Size Mandaluyong. Miss Plus Size pageant was…
I’m always interested in behind the scenes of a film, why and how a shot was done. It’s always nice to know what the director is thinking, how the cinematographer does it, and why they chose to do it. I am more interested at the why it was done, then the how it was done.…
On the weekend we were lucky enough to attend a Steadicam workshop here in Manila. The workshop was put together by Big Brother Manila the official distributors of Steadicam and Red Cameras in the Philippines and M2 Studio a photography studio based in Makati. The workshop was great fun and presented by JR an experience Steadicam…
We took time off and headed to Dumaguete > Siquijor end of June to wind down after a long month of shooting. Summer was over but the weather was lovely as it wasn’t too hot and sometimes it’d rain in the afternoons, but we get full sunshine in the mornings. I’ve actually preferred going off-season…
Geraldine It all started 2 years ago, a day after our wedding, when the Carney clan and some UK friends on a whim decided to go to Bantayan island to celebrate New Years. We booked a flight for the next day without expecting as much. We knew that Typhoon Yolanda had hit the area but…
Peter Having set up a startup, a video production company, here in the Philippines I’m always looking for tools, advice, anything that can help me make our business better. In a world where we are bombarded by information on a daily basis it’s really difficult to try and sort the wheat from the chaff. So I’ve…
Geraldine Last week, we went to the world’s (and US) second-largest stock exchange company Nasdaq to shoot their office interior for a video series showcasing their international locations. Stepping onto the 7th floor of their Taguig office, I am immediately transported back to 2009 when I started working for a Chinese software company Xilisoft, where I…
Geraldine It’s a little known fact that besides cemeteries, I have a somewhat mini fixation on castles. This probably stemming from watching too much Downton Abbey! Though I prefer the deafening silence and peaceful feeling in the bottom of my gut and heart whenever I visit a cemetery by myself. Weird? Yes. So next…