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The Gimbal Changed Everything.
Image of a camera gimble

Arbor Group
Jan 29, 20212 min read
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Ode to the C-Stand
The quintessential production tool.

Arbor Group
Feb 6, 20202 min read
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Competence
It all comes down to this.

Arbor Group
Jan 13, 20202 min read
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Safety: Hoping vs. Planning
It's a plan not a wish.

Arbor Group
Oct 15, 20193 min read
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Not so fast.
Depth of field management separates the armatures from the pros

Arbor Group
Aug 8, 20193 min read
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Murphy's Law
We were recently reading a great article from a blog called ‘Videothink’ entitled “The Competence to Recognize Incompetence in Film and...

Arbor Group
Jul 24, 20193 min read
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Inside Baseball, Part 2
More of our favorite, most obscure production and film biz terms. Some you may know while others are wonderfully oblique. Alan Smithee...

Arbor Group
Jun 24, 20193 min read
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Inside Baseball, Part One
Here are some of our favorite, more obscure production and film biz terms. If you know all of them, you’ve either been in the business a...

Arbor Group
May 30, 20193 min read
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LUTs of Options
What is a LUT and, if I’m an agency producer, why should I care? Well, every business has its esoteric acronyms but this is a rather...

Arbor Group
May 7, 20192 min read
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Details. Details.
It’s hard to pinpoint the causes for the trend of “sloppy” production. Maybe it is the relentless drive toward tighter and tighter...

Arbor Group
Mar 20, 20192 min read
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Blackwrap: Aluminum Foil on Steroids
In terms of getting the most bang-for-the-buck, there is seemingly one production tool more valuable than all others: Blackwrap. ...

Arbor Group
Mar 5, 20192 min read
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Paranoia: The Universal Given
We are often asked how do we as directors successfully maximize the performances of on-camera talent. While there are mired techniques we...

Arbor Group
Feb 17, 20192 min read
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Bits: A guide for the digitally challenged among us.
What the hell is bitrate and bit depth and why should I care? From the 30,000-foot view, most of us creatives don’t need to know these...

Arbor Group
Feb 14, 20192 min read
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The Dreaded Question
The most dreaded question that all production companies and independent video producers face is: “How much is this going to cost?” It is...

Arbor Group
Feb 14, 20192 min read
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