In December of 2011 BlackMagic Design released the first beta of DaVinci Resolve for Windows. Recognizing the pure awesomeness of this, Inventive Pictures immediately got to work incorporating Resolve into our post production workflow. With Resolve in the house, Inventive Pictures ca

This 9-minute segment was shot in two short days in Portland, Salem and McMinneville, Oregon with WNET producer Karla Murthy and audio mixer Morgan Hobart. Prior to the shoot I was a little worried that the FS100 would slow down this news-style production. The rather ambitious plan wa

Eliminate DSLR workflow compromises while capturing beautiful pictures and sound with the new large sensor Sony FS100.  Video produced with DSLR’s like the Canon 5D and 7D can looks surprisingly like 35mm motion picture film, and this beautiful look is currently very in-vogue.

In 2009 and early 2010 I shot a series of TV spots for Valley Medical Center in Renton, WA. The production company was Hamilton/Saunderson and the spots were directed by Virginia Bogert. The VMC marketing department made it clear that they didn’t want us to use any professional

Super8Filmaker Magazine ~ 1983 In high school I wrote a letter that was published in Super-8 Filmaker magazine. That simple communication set in motion a chain of events that found me production work in NYC on studio-funded feature films within a year. A decade later, when the Web was

I spent a week at the end of August 2010 in Seattle and Olympia with WNET/Thirteen producer Lucy Kennedy and Seattle Times investigative reporter Mike Berens. Mike’s extensive reporting on Washington State’s troubled adult family home industry was the guide for our cov

Back in 2005, when my production company Inventive Pictures was born, one of our first projects was a series of TV spots for Seattle-based jazz record label Origin Records. Origin owners Matt Jorgensen and John Bishop wanted to publicize their growing record label and advertise upcomi