Behind the Scenes: Filming the Alice Guo Story & Our Emmy Nomination
Behind the Scenes, Documentary, Philippines, TV I am incredibly proud to announce that the Bloomberg Investigates/Originals documentary, “Alice Guo: The Philippines Mayor With a Dark Secret,” has been nominated for an Emmy Award for Outstanding True Crime Coverage. Serving as both the Director of Photography and Local Producer for the Philippines unit was one of the most challenging yet rewarding experiences...
Behind the Scenes: Filming ‘The Fixers’ in Marikina with Smile Train
Behind the Scenes, Documentary, NGO, Philippines, TV, Video Behind the scenes filming the reality TV Show The Fixers in Marikina, Metro Manila Philippines. Exposure.ph
Backstage with Olivia Rodrigo: Filming the “Guts” Tour in the Philippines
Behind the Scenes, Philippines, Video At Exposure.ph, we’ve been fortunate to work with some incredible artists, but this one holds a special place in our hearts. Recently, we were fortunate enough to film Olivia Rodrigo’s first ever trip to the Philippines with her father and her special”Guts” World Tour show at the Philippines Arena for American Express. Not only did...
The Creative Corner, Episode 6: Joe Buffalo a tale of oppression, Indigenous People and skateboarding
Documentary, Inspiration, The Creative Corner, Uncategorized, Video We’re back after a little hiatus here’s this week’s Episode of Creative Corner Series, where we showcase the best visual content on the web. This week we’re featuring a short hybrid documentary titled “Joe Buffalo,” executive produced by Tony Hawk and distributed by The New Yorker. This documentary explores the life of a Cree skateboarding...
The Creative Corner, Episode 5: Small Boats and Swimmers
Inspiration, The Creative Corner Welcome back to the Creative Corner, where we showcase the best visual content on the internet! Today, in Episode 5 we’re excited to spotlight “The Swimmers,” a stunning film directed by Sally El Hosaini that tells the powerful and emotional story of two Syrian sisters who find solace in swimming. Nathalie Issa and Manal Issa...
The Creative Corner: Episode 4, How to use AI in your video production
Inspiration, The Creative Corner, Tools, Video Unless you’ve been hiding under a rock recently you’ve been reading about and probably experimenting with ai tools such as chat gpt, dall·e 2 -, midjourney, stable diffusion etc Well this week in creative corner we share a fantastic tutorial from the great epic light media channel, which shows how you can use AI generated...
The Creative Corner: Episode 3, Patagonia Branded Content
Documentary, Inspiration, The Creative Corner Welcome back to the Creative Corner! this week we take a look at “Branded Content” and how to do it right. Almost every video production company at some point has been asked to create a video or branded content for a company. Some brands have realised that hard-selling their products is not the only way...
The Creative Corner: Episode 2, The 13th Documentary
Documentary, Inspiration, The Creative Corner, Video Welcome back to the Creative Corner! In honour of Black History Month, our second post is all about Ava DuVernay’s powerful documentary, “The 13th” which is available to watch in full on YouTube. Released in 2016, “The 13th” explores the 13th Amendment to the US Constitution, which was intended to abolish slavery and involuntary servitude,...
The Creative Corner: Episode 1
Inspiration, The Creative Corner Mr Beast discusses The future of YouTube, Twitter, TikTok and Instagram with Lex Fridman One of our new years resolutions was to be more active on the blog and today we are introducing a new series, The Creative Corner. Every Friday we’ll post the most interesting, inspiring or thoughtful piece of content that we’ve seen...
New Exposure.ph Demo Reel
Aerial, Corporate, Documentary, Marketing Videos, NGO, Philippines, Travel, Video Hey everyone! It’s been a while but we’re excited to share our new demo reel video with you all. It’s a compilation of some of our favourite projects we’ve worked on during 2021 and 2022, including corporate videos, documentaries, and digital content. We know that creating a video can be a big deal and that’s...
Gutenberg Sample Post
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Testing the Elements
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Post with YouTube Video
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Post with Vimeo Video
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City Bike
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Desert Road
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Aetas of Zambales
Documentary, Philippines, Photography, Travel, Video, Zambales Hello and apologies for the long delay between posts. We’ve been busy filming and editing a number of different projects. There’s quite a bit of difference between our last post all about luxury yachts and this one all about the Aetas one of the indigenous people of the Philippines. The Aetas are thought to be...
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Filming Luxury Yachts in Coron, Palawan
Marketing Videos, Philippines, Photography, Travel, Video One of the perks of our job is that we get to meet interesting people, travel to places and experience culture. We ended 2017 with one of the most memorable shoots ever. It was a dream shoot as we get to travel to Coron, Palawan. Coron is known for its beautiful lakes, lagoons, island hopping,...
Tourists, beaches and missile threats on Guam
Journalism, Travel, TV, Video We’ve produced and filmed a number of video projects for CCTV, which is now rebranded as CGTN, and last week we flew to Guam to cover the missile threat. I didn’t have much of an idea of what Guam would be like other than it’s a tropical island in the middle of the Pacific Ocean....
Whale Sharks and Eco Tourism in the Philippines
Documentary, Journalism, Philippines, TV, Video When I was growing up I was adamant I wanted to be a Marine Biologist, I had posters on my walls of dolphins and other cetaceans. The sea and the ocean were a big part of my childhood growing up near the coast and rummaging around rock pools, catching crabs with my two brothers was...
Drone Videography in Philippines
Aerial, Behind the Scenes, Journal, Philippines, Photography, Travel, Video 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...
Project Pearls
Marketing Videos, NGO, Philippines, Video We’ve collaborated with Project Pearls to film and produce a promotional video for them to let potential sponsors, volunteers and viewers know what Project Pearls does. They mainly do feeding programs for 200-250 children a day, but they also sponsor students in school and offer tutoring to those who need help. Project Pearls has also...
Western Academy of Beijing, China
Marketing Videos, Video It’s always great to work with a company who gives you full creative control and not getting on our backs while we film. They basically want videos to promote WAB to potential expats who are considering moving to Beijing as well as potential employees from other countries. It was a challenge because we had to...
Post Yolanda Projects for Italian Agency for Development Cooperation
Corporate Social Responsibility, Documentary, NGO, Philippines, Video A few months ago, we were commissioned by the Italian Agency for Development Cooperation under Italian Embassy Manila to document their 3 post-Typhoon Yolanda projects in Philippines. The schedule was quite tight as we were contacted end of April, 2-week shoot between Iloilo, Tanauan and Guiuan and we have to deliver an initial draft for...
Paradise Music Festival
Journal, Music, Philippines 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...
Miss Plus Size – Philippines
Documentary, Inspiration, Journal, Philippines, TV, Video 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...
DION (Day In and Out Nanny)
Marketing Videos, Video Day In and Out Nanny is a website that helps families find household help online – nanny, pets, elderly care. It’s like LinkedIn for nannies! It’s great that Dennis and Jacqueline (DION founders) thought of launching this service to other families; as they themselves having gone through finding the right nanny in Metro Manila and it...
UNICEF and DSWD – Emergency Unconditional Cash Transfer
NGO, Philippines, Video Last year, we went to Samar to film three families who benefited from UNICEF’s Emergency Unconditional Cash Transfer for Typhoon Yolanda. The Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD) in partnership with the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) has implemented the “Emergency Unconditional Cash Transfer (EUCT) for Typhoon Yolanda affected population in Eastern Samar”. The...
Jose “Butch” Dalisay interview for the BBC
Journalism, Video EDSA for me is stress, traffic jams and unfortunately a necessary evil when moving around Manila. EDSA or Epifanio De le Santos Avenue is the main north south artery running through metro Manila. It’s almost impossible to avoid when driving and is the epicentre of the frustration that many Manileños feel about the horrific traffic...
Anatomy of a scene The Revenant
Entertainement, Inspiration, Journal, Tools, Video 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....
ABS CBN X Deal
Behind the Scenes, Journalism, Philippines, Video UPDATE Oct 20 16:12 So it seems like word has gotten back to one of the producers of the show and they are not happy with my blog post. They feel I’m being unfair and would like any mention of the show removed (I’m sorry but that isn’t going to happen perhaps I should mention...
Steadicam Workshop Manila
Journal, Video 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...
Californi-yeah
Travel, Video A quick video of Geraldine’s trip to California. Lovely laid-back vibe and wonderfully chill summer.
Cliff Diving, Siquijor
Behind the Scenes, Journal, Philippines, Travel 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...
UNICEF shoot with Nicole Scherzinger
Journalism, NGO, Philippines, Photography We’ve been a little busy recently and so have overlooked the blog. I’d been meaning to post this for a while but had to wait before the images were published back in the UK and then totally forgot about it. This was the first time I had a photoshoot with a bonafide celebrity, singer Nicole Scherzinger....
OPPO BTS with Sarah G
Behind the Scenes, Fun, Music, Philippines, Video Peter Like most people I’m sort of lost without my phone I use it to keep in touch with friends and family back in the UK, read the news, take photos, and more importantly email which is vital for our business. We were approached by OPPO smartphones to create two behind the scenes videos for...
UDDO Bamboo Sunglasses
Fun, Philippines, Photography, Travel, Video If only all our shoots were this fun. We had a blast making this short branding video for UDDO a bamboo sunglasses company based here in the Philippines. We love their sunglasses and more important their ideals encouraging people to get out of the city, travel and explore nature. Hence their tagline, “Walk with Nature.”...
Cutting Edge x Bantayan Back to Sea
Journal, NGO, Philippines, Travel 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...
Inspiration and Tools for Start Ups
Inspiration, Journal, Philippines, Photography, Tools, Travel 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...
Behind the Scenes: Nasdaq Video Shoot
Corporate, Journal, Photography, Video 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...
Travel: Malmesbury Abbey, England
Journal, Photography, Travel 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...
Travel: Castell Coch Castle, Wales
Fun, Journal, Photography, Travel, Video Geraldine I have a thing for castles (next to cemeteries), not because they are featured in fairy tales and being swept off my feet by a handsome prince, but more of the gothic feel and the history behind each room and tower. Wales is sometimes known to be the “castle capital of the world”, so...
A Film About Coffee – Filipino Premiere
Behind the Scenes, Journal, Uncategorized Peter We were very excited to be part of the Filipino premiere of the beautiful “A Film About Coffee. “ The film was screened in Teatrino, Greenhills and the event put together by the lovely folks who run the Aeropress coffee bar called Habitual. As well as the video screenings, there was a cupping session...
Philippine Surfboard Shaper – KM69
Journal, Philippines, Photography, Travel, Video Geraldine Last week, we went to visit surfboard-shaper James of Kilomoter 69. He was kind enough to let us shoot his process and even let us have lunch – amazing roast chicken and sukiyaki cooked by his mom! When we started shooting the shaping process, styro-flakes are everywhere. My...
Scary Science
Journalism, NGO Peter I used to be a scientist back in the day getting a Masters Degree in Pharmacology and was very close to studying for a PhD at the University Of Bath. I think science is vital in developing new technologies and tools to progress society. I also believe that science is also manipulated and not...
Coffee Beds in Benguet
Food and Drink, Photography, Travel Coffee is something that I had taken for granted until I first visited a coffee farm back in the summer. It was on that trip interviewing and speaking to coffee farmers that made me realize just how hard it was for farmers. People sitting in Starbucks or other fancy coffee corporate chains don’t think about...
Creative Class Series
Video Peter I’m always interested to hear about other people’s creative process. This series of stunning videos entitled the Creative Class is fascinating as all the interviewees talk about the influence of technology on their work and creativity. The videos are beautifully shot and the sound design is just superb. I’m not sure if the series is...
Hoochie Coochie Mikkie
Music, Photography Peter We’ll its been a while since we focused on still images as video is really what we spend most of our time doing. We decided to try and take a few portraits of Hoochie Coochie Mikkie, a talented blues musician we met at the Pasyal at Manila. He was so passionate and belted out...
How To A Light Beer Bottle/Product Photography
Food and Drink, Photography, Video Geraldine I love watching Behind the Scenes (BTS) videos, especially in the making of a photo or video, what goes on making the shot and how the photographer/cinematographer thinks. This is also a way of learning new ideas from others. In this Fstoppers Youtube Video, they teach you how to light a beer bottle...
Film Friday: Through the Ground Glass
Photography, Travel, Video Peter I love this short video about a large format photographer Joe Allen Freeman by Hawk Bolt Productions. Through the Ground Glass from Taylor Hawkins on Vimeo. I didn’t always work in video in fact I start my career as a photographer when I helped set up a music and lifestyle magazine in Seoul South Korea....
B&H’s Canon Lens Experience
Photography Geraldine Here’s a comprehensible guide to Canon lenses if you’re undecided which lens to buy. Thanks to B&H Photo and Video, there’s a dedicated page called Canon Lens Experience. You can compare one image taken with a fish-eye lens and comparing it with a wide angle lens. Comparison images also include Aperture, Tilt-Shift, Image...
Miss World Philippines 2014 – Blurred Lines
Entertainement, Journal, Photography Geraldine It is a known fact that Filipinos love their pageantry. Be it Miss World, Miss International, Miss Universe, Mister World, Miss Gay International Philippines, even a Miss Bilbiling Mandaluyong (Miss Fatty Mandaluyong) exists. Why shouldn’t Filipinos be obsessed, when the very first Filipino to bag a major title dated back to 1969, and Philippines has been...
Making of Pizza
Food and Drink, Video Geraldine We shot and produced a “making of” pizza. It took us 2 separate days of half-day shooting, and a little bit of bickering. Taking photos of our cooking is hard as it is, but shooting a video is harder, as not everything can be done in one take. Personally, I love eating pizza. But...
Getting High Cycling Video
Journal, Philippines, Video Peter An opportunity to try and win the new must have camera of the moment, the Panasonic GH4, was too tempting to overlook. Digital Photographer Philippines were running the competition as part of Manila Photo 2014. To win the camera, people were asked to make a 30 second video using GH as a title so Go...
Trafigura Foundation
Corporate Social Responsibility, Documentary, NGO, Philippines, Travel, Video Geraldine Our project with Trafigura Foundation has been under wraps since early June, but we are glad to finally feature the videos we’ve shot and edited. Though we still have another project underway, the first two videos are ready to publish. Trafigura Foundation sponsors partner organisations around the world in carrying out and strengthening programmes...
A Week in Videos Episode 3
A Week in Videos, Video Saturday – July 19, 2014 The #videooftheday is “Richard” a story about a travelling piano tuner who lives outdoors in London by @YourEngland — Exposure (@Exposureph) July 19, 2014 Video by: Sunday – July 20, 2014 Todays video is Arctic Swell a @SmugMug & @antonlorimer film on surfing & photographing the Arctic feat @chrisburkard...
Making Vietnamese Coffee
Food and Drink, Video One Sunday, we decided to shoot the making of Vietnamese coffee. By the end of the day, we’ve made about 4-5 cups of Vietnamese coffee and drank almost all of it and Geraldine’s heart thumping and hands shaking. We had a little video editing competition between us, to see how the other’s creativity translates in...
A Week in Videos: Episode 2
A Week in Videos, Travel, Video It’s Friday and that means another episode of the best videos that have been played in the Exposure office this week. This week we’ve got 16 year old surfers, recovering alcoholics, a motorcycle owning Mom, the late Leonard Knight, forest workers in BC, and a man who walks a cabbage in China. Scroll down to...
Viva Manila!
Entertainement, Philippines, Travel, Video We’ve been frequenting Manila more often since our move this year. One reason is that Peter’s VISA needed to be processed at Bureau of Immigration in Magallanes Drive, Manila. We love the atmosphere in Intramuros and we love walking around the walled city. So when we had the chance to shoot for Viva Manila for...
A Week in Videos: Episode 1
A Week in Videos, Video So this is the start of a regular blog post which will highlight our #videooftheday tweets. We are posting it every Friday to give you some amazing videos to watch over the weekend. Every week I scour the internet to watch videos that inspire me in one way or another. I’m trying to cast a...
Gear Talk: What’s in the Exposure Bags
Journal, Photography, Travel, Video Peter Our gear depends on the nature of the job or the location of the shoot but this is pretty much the default gear we’d take on a normal shoot: 1. Peter’s 5D MkIII plus lenses – 28mm, 50mm, 100mm and 70-200mm 2. Geraldine’s 6D plus 24-105mm lens 3. Video tripod – EIMAGE A-7402A 4. Camera...
Kalsada, Coffee Memories and Mountains
Food and Drink, Journal, Philippines, Photography, Travel I have to thank my Dad for getting me to appreciate coffee. Actually my parents are pretty much responsible for my huge appetite and love of food. I was fortunate enough that my parents loved to travel with us kids. I’m pretty sure that’s where my love affair of food started. I can remember our...
Exposure meets NoyNoy
Journalism, Philippines, Video If someone had told us that we’d be visiting the President of the Philippines and recording a video interview for the Economist 6 months ago we would have laughed in their face. It just goes to show what’s possible and with a little luck (thanks DJ Clark) and hard work anything can happen. It was...
Good Friday Crucifixions
Journal, Philippines, Photography, Travel, Video Holy Week for me meant I get to stay home for 4 days and not work and sloth around eating, sleeping late and doing nothing. Sometimes we would go to the beach with the family but it’s usually hot time of the month. I remember when coming home to Dagupan from Manila, we’d see penitents...
Katipunan Craft Ales Video
Journal, Photography, Video It’s has been a busy few weeks for Exposure, we haven’t had time to blog about the amazing experience we had making a short video for Katipunan Craft Ales who in our opinion brew the best beer in the Philippines. The video tells the story of Katipunan craft ales how they started, where they are...
Behind the Scenes: Art of Batok
Journal, Photography, Travel, Video For our first assignment we travelled to the Cordillera mountains to tell the story of Whang Od, a 95-year old traditional Kalinga tattoo artist. We produced a video story for Assignment Asia, a new program by CCTV focusing on stories from across Asia. Whang Od is possibly the “last” artist who practices the art of...
Goodbye Beijing, Hello Manila!
Journal, Photography, Travel, Video Goodbye Beijing As I type this on the airplane, I feel a mix of emotions. Beijing has been home for Geraldine and I for the past four and a half years and it’s with a little sadness that we bid farewell. I first came to Beijing, back in 2005, to travel whilst I was living...