Bruce Logan

Who The Hell Is Bruce Logan? Meet Bruce Well, you can check me out on IMDB. I suppose my biggest claim to fame is… I blew up the Death Star. That’s right, Bruce Logan – not Luke Skywalker. “Star Wars: Episode…

Greenscreen Chroma-Key Matting Tips & Tricks Greenscreen Basics Simply put, greenscreen or bluescreen matting is for combining two different images, shot at different times, and make them appear to be one shot. Very often we are just putting a person…

HDR (High Dynamic Range): From Too Bright to Just Right Really Seeing with HDR It seems like every year there’s a new buzz word at NAB.  One year everyone had a new camera crane… then everyone had a 3D rig……

How To Light A Car A Car Is A Chrome Ball Well, the short answer is that you can’t light a car. At least, not in any conventional way. A car is essentially a chrome ball. If you try to…

Directing 101 There’s No Business Like Show Business There is a reason they call it the film business. Even if everyone is working for free, even if all your locations and production values are being donated, when you walk on…

Lighting In The Digital Age Back In The Day… Because cameras, lenses and film-stocks used to have pitifully slow EI (exposure indices, ASAs, ISOs) it used to be necessary to add a lot of light to a motion picture shot…

COMMERCIAL SHOWREEL 101 Or how I learned to stop worrying and fake my showreel Commercial Spot Production can be one of the most rewarding, fascinating and creative forms of filmmaking. Telling a fully developed story in thirty seconds is an…

How to get a job in the film business in 9 steps You’re not really in the “film business” until you have a job. “So how do I get a job in the film business?” That’s the question that I…

On the Importance of Camera Coverage Camera coverage is the additional footage the director and director of photography shoot so that later the director can make alternative creative choices in the way the scene is cut, in the way it…

Film Set Etiquette: 6 Rules for When to Speak and When to Shut Up Nothing speaks more to your professionalism than the way you conduct yourself on set. I can’t tell you how many times I have cringed for certain…