This week I had the pleasure to sit down for a drink with writer and podcaster Peter Frick-Wright, who is the producer of Outside Magazine’s new podcast series, The Science of Survival. He’s thought a lot about writing and sound design and how to use both to serve an audio story. Below are a few takeaways from our conversation. […]

Michael “Pickle Boy” Green and his father Charles “Angry Grampa” Green, are the stars of The Angry Grampa Show on YouTube. The premise of the show is that Pickle Boy pranks and records Angry Grampa in real time. Pickle Boy enlists family members and friends to make the pranks seem believable, and Angry Grampa falls […]

If you don’t know who Beyoncé is, you must be living under a rock. Bey, as many call her loyal “Bey Hive” fans call her, shot to super stardom in her teens as a part of a 90’s R&B girl group, Destiny’s Child. Destiny’s Child were known for smash hits like Bills, Bills, Bills, Bootylicious, […]

  Chasing Ice, a 2012 NatGeo documentary by Jeff Orlowski and James Balog, about the melting glacier and ice at Arctic due to climate change, in Arctic, where the filmmakers witnessed “the biggest story in human history” and were able to spend many years capturing the changing glaciers. The way they shoot this documentary is […]

This student documentary was made by a member of Cleveland High School’s graduating class of 2015, during and after his senior year. The school has for the past few years offered a multimedia production class, and it was through this that Ben Grayzel acquired the skills and equipment necessary to make the film. The filmmaker […]

A few months ago I ordered myself a Google Cardboard VR visor and started checking out some of the new content being produced for that medium. I like new gadgets as much as anybody, but I came at this with some skepticism. As a filmmaker, I relish composition and framing as storytelling techniques, and editing is my best […]

This powerful little piece made me cry. (Granted, I cry at almost everything, but still!) It’s definitely the audio (the narrator) that drives this piece, but it’s the absurdity of seeing that many jellybeans that keeps you watching. Think about it, if you had just heard the narrator talking — you’d eventually tune him out […]

In the past few years, I have realized the actual National Football League championship game is not the highlight of the event. . .it’s the commercials. Super Bowl commercials are hands down some of the most entertaining :30 second-1:00 minute short pieces made throughout the year. Advertising agencies from across the world spend months and millions of dollars coming up […]

The Super Bowl is far and away the biggest, annual U.S. sporting event. As such, it is also a huge day for the media. Professional camera men and women from various news outlets are in attendance to capture the most memorable moments of the game. For these pros, the task is a challenge; for the […]

A Seat At The Table from Public Record on Vimeo. “A Seat At The Table” is a short documentary piece which produced by New York Times Brand Studio. The film crew use split-screen style and draw a sweet family dinner picture （00：00-00：38）. The topic of the story is close to each other’s life. We all […]